When a report is published from Power BI Desktop to the Service, multiple objects are created in the Power BI service. To understand this behavior, click on the down arrow chevron for the LearnPowerBI workspace in order to expand this section of the Navigation Pane.
Your screen should now resemble the following screenshot:
Note that there are five subsections to the workspace, as follows:
- DASHBOARDS
- REPORTS
- WORKBOOKS
- DATASETS
- DATAFLOWS
We will cover all of these elements more in depth later, but for now, note that the filename of the Power BI Desktop file that was published to the workspace appears underneath both REPORTS as well as DATASETS. During publishing, Power BI takes the underlying data model in the report and publishes this as a dataset. The report pages are published as a separate object under REPORTS, and these report pages are linked to this published dataset. Publishing these as separate, but linked, objects allows the dataset to be reused for the creation of additional, independent reports from within the Service. We will discuss this in Chapter 8, Using Reports in the Service..