Introduction

TDM5 offers the ability to create your own designs, this can be done using elements. Each element has its own properties which can be configured. With these elements you have the ability to create content based on your needs.

With the PowerBI element you will be able to display Reports, Tiles and Dashboards created and maintained in PowerBI. Additional articles regarding elements can be found in our knowledge base.

This manual will explain how an Entra ID application can be created for PowerBI.

Requirements

If you want to setup Power BI you need to meet the following requirements:

Have access to the Azure platform and have the permissions to create applications.

How to create an Entra ID application for PowerBI

Sign in with your account to http://entra.microsoft.com
Select: Application > App registrations.

Select New registration.

Fill in a name for your application, for example: TDM5 Power BI
Set the “Supported account types” to: “Accounts in this organizational directory only”.
Please configure the following redirect URL: https://tdm5.tdmsignage.com/DataSources/PowerBiLogin

(Please make sure a WEB platform is selected and then add the URL. This can be edited afterwards by selecting the tab “Authentication”, then please select “Add a platform” and select the WEB platform and add the URL)
Once the application has been created visit the tab “API permissions” and configure the following permissions.
Once you have configured the API permissions a client secret can be created in the tab “Certificates & Secrets”

Please select “New client secret” and add a description, for example: TDM5 Power BI
Once the client secret has been created please copy the value as this will be encrypted once you leave the Azure Application page. The Tenant ID and Client ID can be found in the tab “Overview”.
You finished the steps for setting up the Azure application. The credentials you have created need to be configured in the TDM Designer. They will be requested once you create a Power BI data source in TDM.
Now we can continue and create the data source in TDM5. To do this login to your TDM5 environment using an administrator account.
Select “Interactions”.
Select the menu option called “Data sources”.
Select ‘Create new data source’ and select ‘Power BI’, fill out a name for the data source and select ‘Create’.
Fill out the details we saved from the Entra ID application and select ‘Grant permission’.

In case the credentials are valid and the permissions are correctly set the data source will return ‘Connected’.

You have now successfully setup the PowerBI data source, you can continue with the manual ‘TDM5 - How to add PowerBI’ to add the Power BI data source into your design.