The Header area contains a number of useful items. On the far left is a waffle icon that, when clicked, provides links to other Office 365 applications. On the right-hand side of the Power BI text is a breadcrumb widget that helps you to keep track of where you are within the Power BI service. On the right-hand side of the screen are a number of icons.

The first icon on the right-hand side of the Header is for Notifications. Clicking this icon presents the Notification Center as an overlay of the right-hand side of the Canvas. Any important notices can be viewed here. This includes notifications from Microsoft, as well as any data alerts that you might configure.

The second icon, a gear, provides links for Settings in a drop-down menu. The menu options are as follows

• Manage personal storage
• Create content pack
• View content pack
• Admin portal
• Manage gateways
• Settings
• Manage embed codes

Let's take a brief look at each of these options.

At the top of this menu is a small graphic that allows you to see how much personal storage you have consumed. Power BI Pro users get 10 GB of personal storage. Clicking this link presents a list of all of the data models currently stored in the Service that are owned by the user. This page lists how much space each of the models consumes, along with the associated results, dashboards, and other information, and is a convenient location for removing unused datasets and related artifacts.

Content packs are an older method of creating a collection of content and sharing that content with users. We will not cover content packs in this book.

Depending on whether or not you are an administrator, you may or may not have access to all or part of the Admin portal. The Admin portal provides an interface where we can see usage metrics, manage users, view audit logs, adjust tenant and capacity settings, and manage embed codes and organization visuals, as well as manage data flow settings and workspaces.

The Manage gateways link allows the user to view and edit gateway settings within the organization. We will cover gateways later in this book. These settings allow the user to manage privacy, language, developer, and ArcGIS maps settings and also allow you to close your account.

The Settings link provides access to various options related to privacy, language, account, development, and the integration of certain custom visuals such as ArcGIS maps for Power BI.

Manage embed codes provides a page that users can use to manage their own embed codes. Embed codes are how Power BI content is shared externally to the Power BI service. This area differs from the Admin portal's embed code management as the Admin portal allows all embed codes within the organization to be managed, while this area only lists the currently logged in user's embed codes.

The third icon, a down arrow, provides download links so that you can download various components of Power BI, including the following:

• Power BI Desktop
• Data Gateway
• Paginated Report Builder
• Power BI for Mobile
• Analyze in Excel updates

The fourth icon, a question mark, provides Help & Support links that are helpful if you want to learn and get support for Power BI. Some of these links are as follows:

• Getting started
• Learn
• Community
• Power BI for developers
• Privacy & cookies
• Accessibility shortcuts
• About Power BI

The fifth icon, a smiley face, provides feedback links to the community forums, including the following:

• Submit an idea
• Submit an issue