share button disabled on Power BI desktop version

[mdavis_ma]

I have the Power BI desktop version and we are testing it for my company.  I can publish reports to the web, but my Share button underneath the Publish button is disabled.  How can I enable this button so I can share reports?  I watched a "how to" video on sharing reports but the share button does not work for me for some reason.

I tried reloading the app but it is still greyed out.  Any help is appreciated!

[andre]

you cannot share reports.  you can only share dashboards.  and only from http://app.powerbi.com .. the only collaborative thing you can do from Power BI Desktop is to Publish your reports in to the service (http://app.powerbi.com)... all other collaboration activities have to be done from the service.

[rblackford]

It seems that you cannot "share" reports, period. Is this correct to the best of your knowledge? If you wanted to share a report, you would need to send the .pbix file to another user (even if you have the Pro version)?

[Sean]

@mdavis_maIf you are talking about this "Share" under the Publish button

That's not really a button.

As you can see on the Home tab the buttons are kind of organized in Groups so this is the Name of the Group

it happens to have only 1 button!

Clipboard | External Data | Insert | View | Relationships | Calculations | Share |

Hope this helps!

[mdavis_ma · Accepted solution]

Sean:

Thank you for clearing that up!  I was getting the desktop and web version mixed up.  When I watched the video on sharing I thought it was using the desktop version as the example.  I went back and watched again and realized it was the web version.