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The Related content pane shows how your Power BI service content - dashboards, reports, and semantic models - are interconnected. The Related content pane is also a launching pad for taking action. From here, you can open dashboards and reports, generate insights, analyze the data in Excel, and more.
In the Power BI service, reports are built on semantic models, report visuals are pinned to dashboards, and dashboard visuals link back to reports. But how do you know which dashboards host visuals from your Marketing report? And how do you locate those dashboards? Is your Procurement dashboard using visuals from more than one semantic model? If so, what are their names and how can you open them? Is your HR semantic model used in any reports or dashboards at all? You can answer questions like these on the Related content pane. The pane displays the related content and allows you to take action on the content and easily navigate between related items.
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The related content feature doesn't work for streaming semantic models.
Why use related content?
The Related content pane helps you understand and navigate your Power BI content more effectively. Here are common scenarios where it's useful:
- Understand data sources: You found a useful dashboard tile and want to explore the underlying report or understand what data it's based on.
- Find similar content: You're viewing a report and want to see what other reports use the same semantic model, which might contain related insights.
- Prepare for presentations: Before presenting a dashboard to stakeholders, you want to review the source reports to understand the data context and be ready for questions.
- Discover more insights: You're analyzing a report and want to see what dashboards use this data, which might reveal how others in your organization are using the same information.
- Verify data freshness: You want to check when the semantic model behind your report was last refreshed to ensure you're working with current data.
See related content for a dashboard or report
When you open a dashboard or report, select More options (...) in the menu bar, and choose See related content from the dropdown.
The Related content pane opens. For a dashboard, it shows all the reports that have visualizations pinned to the dashboard and their associated semantic models. For this dashboard, visualizations come from only one report and that report is based on only one semantic model. If you look at the image at the beginning of this article, you see related content for a dashboard that has visualizations pinned from two reports, and one semantic model.
From here, you can take direct action on the related content, depending on your permissions. For example, select a report or dashboard name to open it. For a listed report, select an icon to get insights and more. For a semantic model, review the last refresh date and time, analyze in Excel, get insights, refresh, and more.
Considerations and limitations
- If you don't see See related, look for the icon instead
. Select the icon to open the Related content pane. - To open related content for a report, you need to be in Reading view.
- The related content feature doesn't work for streaming datasets.
- Permissions: The actions you can take on related content depend on your permissions. For example, you need at least read access to view related content. To analyze data in Excel or refresh a semantic model, you need additional permissions on the semantic model. If you don't have permission to access certain related items, you might see them listed but can't open them.
- App content: When viewing content through an app, the Related content pane shows relationships within that app's content. You can see reports and dashboards included in the app, but you might not see the underlying semantic models if they weren't included in the app or if you don't have separate access to them.
- Workspace context: Related content can span multiple workspaces if you have access to them. If a related item is in a workspace you can't access, it doesn't appear in the related content pane.