ArcGIS for Power BI user interface

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Some workflows may require specific privileges. For more information about user types, roles, and privileges, see the Accounts topic.

To use the content sharing features in ArcGIS for Power BI, your Microsoft 365 account should include a Power BI Pro or Premium plan with capabilities to publish reports. Users without this plan cannot embed or publish reports to the web.

The ArcGIS for Power BI user interface is designed to help you add geographic context to your report data. See Get started with ArcGIS for Power BI to learn more about ArcGIS for Power BI maps.

The user interface items for ArcGIS for Power BI are described below. The numbers in the table correspond to the numbers in the image.

Number	User interface item	Feature description
1	Feature information pane	Interact with attributes from layers added from ArcGIS to your map in the Feature information pane.
2	Layers	View and edit the map's layers, change the map style, add labels, improve your data's location accuracy, show the legend card, add contextual layers from ArcGIS, and manage the map's appearance. Sign in to your ArcGIS account to add layers from a wider range of data sources.
3	Basemap	Choose a background map.
4	Selection tools	Expand the toolbar and view the available selection tools.
5	Search	Find an address and temporarily dock the location on the map.
6	Analysis	Create a Buffer/Drive time analysis area, add an information card to the map, configure a Find similar analysis, or create a join between a data layer and a reference layer.
7	Settings	View your user profile. Access the ArcGIS for Power BI user help and Esri Community pages, view the current component version and specify the Esri User Experience Improvement (EUEI) program preferences. Sign in to your ArcGIS account to review your account settings and run a validation check before embedding or publishing a map.
8	Legend	Click Show legend card on the Layers tab to open a legend of attributes from the active map layers.
9	Information card	An information card shows user-selected demographic attributes about the population residing within the current map extent or within a specified radius of selected features.