From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

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Set an alert

Set an alert - Power BI Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

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Set an alert

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- [Instructor] All right, so we are back over on our dashboard and we're going to look to set an alert. So we set alerts in the Power BI service to notify you when data on a dashboard changes above or below limits you set. Alerts can be set on tiles pinned from report visuals or from Power BI Q&A, but only on gauges, KPIs, and cards. So that is one of the limitations on alerts is the fact that you can do them on a gauge visualization, a KPI visual, or a card visualization. And then alerts only work on data that's refreshed. When data refreshes, Power BI looks to see if an alert is set for that data. If the data has reached an alert threshold, an alert is triggered. And alerts can be created in the Power BI service by customers that have any license type. And we can set alerts on dashboard tiles that you have created and saved in My Workspace that have been shared with you in premium reserve capacity or in any workspace you can access. And then the question is who can see the alerts…

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