Connect to Power BI Service data

[Furanity]

Hi there,

This is probably a stupid question, but I'm quite new to Power BI, so my apologies in advance.

I've been working with the online Power BI Service for a while. Uploaded data to it, made reports and dashboards. So I downloaded Power BI Desktop with the assumption it can be used to work with that data as well, instead of via the browser.

However, I can't seem to find how to get to that data. All the help files start with "create something new and publish!", but I already have something, and of course I don't want to redo it.

Can somebody explain to me in short how these two compare? With other Office 365 applications I can use the online and local versions with online data stored in OneDrive for example. Is Power BI different compared to those?

Thanks in advance,

Michel 

[Seth_C_Bauer · Accepted solution]

@Furanity

At this time the publishing of reports is only one way. Desktop -> Site

There is no current functionality to save/copy/pull down reports or dashboards from the site. Hoping to see something like this soon as well.