Weโre thrilled to introduceย template appsย update capability! Power BI template apps enable partners to build & publish to AppSource out-of-the-box content for customers with little or no coding.
From now on, afterย downloading and connectingย a template app from AppSource, every Power BI Pro or Premium user can update the app while preserving its connection configuration.
For example, letโs assume youโre a user who downloaded theย Project online template appย and configured its parameters with your companyโs SharePoint URL site. When a new version becomes available on AppSource, pressing โGet it nowโ will trigger an option to overwrite the existing version.
If you choose to overwrite the existing version, you can access the latest reports and dashboards the publisher of the app has created.
Note that if you customized the report or dashboard it might be a good idea save the report using โSave asโ or clone the dashboard before overwriting.
Updating the template app will get you the latest and greatest reports & dashboards the app author has created, so make sure to update it as app publishers are pushing updates on a monthly basis.
Sample data experience
Weโve also further enhanced the sample data experience for template apps, so end-users have a better experience trying out apps and then connecting to their own data.
Every template app can be installed from AppSourceย and viewed with sample data. When opening a report or dashboard youโll see a new banner, reminding you that youโre experiencing the app with sample data.
Template app samples
To show off the cool integrations and apps that are possible, weโve added a list of samples to our documentation:ย Template apps samples.
These samples are available for download now as .pbix source files, and weโll be adding more awesome app samples in the future developed by Microsoft or partners who want to share with our amazing community!
Say goodbye to service content packs
Itโs time to say goodbye to service content packs. Weโve already deprecated many of the content packs and are working closely with our partners to migrate the rest to template apps. By the end of September, most service content packs will be deprecated and all Power BI apps on AppSourceย will be template apps.