Explore Power BI Connector for SAP

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Table of Contents

Sign in
The app shell
- Toolbar (top)
- Side navigation
In-app help
Next step

This page orients newcomers to Power BI Connector for SAP — how to sign in, what the navigation and toolbar buttons do, and where the in-app help lives.

Sign in #

Open the connector URL provided by your administrator. The app authenticates against the SAP BTP identity provider of your tenant. If you do not yet have access, ask an administrator to grant you a role on the connector subscription:

User — create, edit, share, and consume your own data sources; mint personal access tokens.
Admin — everything a User does, plus the Administration page (token expiry policy and similar tenant-wide settings).

If you sign in successfully but see You don’t have access, your account is recognised by the IdP but no connector role has been assigned to it. The administrator can fix this in the BTP cockpit under Role collections.

The app shell #

After signing in, you land on Data Sources. The shell is the same on every page:

Toolbar (top) #

Menu — collapses the side navigation.
Power BI Connector (logo) — returns you to the Data Sources list from anywhere.
Headset — opens the support channel configured for your tenant.
Question mark — opens the in-app help dialog (see below).
Palette — toggles between the light and dark theme. The setting is per-browser.
Your email — the account you’re signed in with.
Log out — ends your session.

Side navigation #

Data Sources — the list of your data sources plus the entry point for creating new ones.
Templates — reserved for a future feature. The badge reads Coming soon and the item is non-interactive.
Data Relationships — an ERD explorer for any SAP service. See Explore data relationships.
Access Tokens — mint and manage personal access tokens used by Power BI to authenticate. See Create an access token.
History — audit log of data-source, token, and export events. See View activity history.
Administration — visible only with the admin role; see Configure the token expiry policy.

In-app help #

The question-mark icon in the toolbar opens a help dialog with a short quick-start checklist and links into this documentation portal. Use it as a quick refresher when you forget the exact sequence of steps.