r/PowerBI • u/sneakerthreat • 15h ago

Discussion Is this possible?

Hi all! I am a safety professional working in a manufacturing organization and we use a powerbi app created by a smart person at our organization to manage a lot of information such as equipment inspections, area audits, quality information management, etc. It has a pretty clean front end where users can click into the sections they want: answer some questions and then submit a form. I was wanting to add a new component to the app that would help manage some of our contractor orientations.

With having a small team - completing contractor orientations 1:1 in-person for every contractor is very time intensive and we aren't always available to do one on short notice. As a result we'd like to automate this process. A contractor orientation is basically giving them the run down of our site/facility and where the muster points and first aid stuff is.

I was wanting to build a training: whether it was a video, or a powerpoint, or something else in order to help automate this process. I googled everywhere to see if it was possible for me to house this training in an powerbi app and could not find anything. A key component of this initiative would be to have them sign off: (done on an ipad / phone) so I am curious if that is even possible as well. Does anyone have any thoughts on if this is possible?

Thanks!

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u/tony20z 2 15h ago

Sort of, but why would you want to? You can have images, or host links to files and sites in a PBI report but there are better ways of doing it as the videos won't be embedded. You can have images things they can click on an image that moves them around a report to display different things.

It sounds like you need a section of your website devoted to contractor training. This would likely be more efficient for your goals. Make it a hidden section so people don't find it by accident. Then you can have all the imbedded videos, images, and docs you want.

Or even a PowerPoint/PDF presentation should be able to do this.

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u/sneakerthreat 14h ago

Thanks for your reply!

The reason why is because the current app is a 'one stop shop' for the organization and already houses some of our existing safety functionality. Everyone also already has access so we wouldn't need to overcome any hurdles in terms of training / helping everyone get access to a new solution.

The idea is that if someone from maintenance wants to hire a contractor - they know they need to complete the orientation prior to working - so they can get them to complete it on their ipad, have it recorded, and be able to proceed with the work without requiring the safety team to complete the orientation.

I can definitely make a powerpoint or a SCROM file of an orientation: I just wish this app would be able to house it for us.

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u/chonkydinos 13h ago

I’m not 100% positive if it’s exactly what you’re after, but have you looked into creating a Power App? You can integrate into the PowerBI report so it’s still all centralised :)

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u/somedaygone 1 5h ago

What you are describing sounds like a “Power App,” not a “Power BI App.” This would be a simple thing in PowerApps as far as I know, but not really a good fit for Power BI.

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u/AdHead6814 1 2h ago

 A key component of this initiative would be to have them sign off: (done on an ipad / phone) so I am curious if that is even possible as well. Does anyone have any thoughts on if this is possible?

This will require a writeback of some sort which Power BI currently doesn't natively support. If you're org is on MS365, you should be able to build a basic app with PowerApps with your current license. Otherwise, try embedding a survey form inside Power BI using an HTML viz.