How to initialise an embedded Power BI report

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I'm attempting to develop an embedded Power BI report and have faced a number of issues. My starting point was to follow the Microsoft guidance as laid out here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/analytics/add-analytics-tab-workspaces?toc=%2Ffin-and-ops%2Ftoc.json

Whilst attempting to debug the issues I was having I made some surprising discoveries:

Microsoft's stated method to use - PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControl - is deprecated, and we should be using a new version - PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControlv2.
PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControlv2 is never used in Microsoft's code.
PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControl is only used three times in Microsoft's code, and not for any of the main examples I looked at.

Based on the above, my question is as follows:

How should we initialise an embedded Power BI report? Should we be using the method as recommended, or should we be using a totally different approach? If so, what?

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Madhuri Ailavarapu on at

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Hello Stuart,

Please use PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControlV2 to intialize report control instead of PBIReportHelper::initializeReportControl and it should work as expected.

Let me know if you are seeing any errors using the new method.

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Mea_ 60,284 on at

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You should use initializeReportControlV2 because initializeReportControl will be deleted one day. However, as of today initializeReportControl just calls initializeReportControlV2 inside of it, So there is no difference.

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Thanks for the replies. My concern was that I was wasting my time trying to debug something that had been abandoned - good to know that it's still the correct and supported method.

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I would still recommend you to use initializeReportControlV2, check how initializeReportControl calls it and do the same, this way you will save you from a trouble if MS delete it one day.

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