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Create scorecards and manual goals in Power BI

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Goals in Power BI let you curate your goals and track them against key business objectives in a single pane. In this article, you complete the following steps:

  • Create your first scorecard.
  • Create a manual goal.
  • Edit a goal.
  • Share the scorecard with others.

You can also connect goals to an existing report visual in Power BI. For more information, see Create connected goals.

Prerequisites

You need a Power BI Pro license to author and share goals in standard workspaces. You also need:

Step 1: Create a scorecard

  1. Sign in to the Power BI service in your browser.

  2. Select Scorecards in the navigation pane to open the Scorecards hub.

    Screenshot of Select Scorecards in the left nav.

  3. In the Scorecards hub, select New scorecard.

    A new scorecard opens, which you can start populating with goals.

  4. Select the edit pencil next to Untitled Scorecard and give your new scorecard a name.

  5. Power BI automatically saves the scorecard to My Workspace, but you can move it to another workspace. Select File > Move Scorecard.

    Screenshot of menu to move a scorecard.

  6. In the Move scorecard dialog, select any available workspace, then select Continue. If you don't have another workspace, you need to create one first. For more information, see Create a workspace in Power BI.

    Screenshot of confirmation to move a scorecard to another workspace, and a dropdown to select the correct workspace.

    In the workspace that you selected, Power BI saves the scorecard itself and a semantic model associated with your scorecard that houses all the metrics data.

Step 2: Create a goal

Tip

If a goal already exists on another scorecard, you can link to it instead of creating a duplicate.

  1. In the scorecard, select New goal.

  2. Provide the following values for your goal:

    Field Value
    Goal name Provide a name for your goal. The name is the only required field for your goal. You can leave the other fields blank and come back to edit them.
    Owners Select one or more owners for your goal. Owners can be individuals or distribution groups.
    Current value Add a manual value or connect to an existing report visual in Power BI. When you edit a manual value, you can also format the number. For more information, see Create connected goals.
    Final target Add a manual value or connect to an existing report visual in Power BI. When you edit a manual value, you can also format the number. For more information, see Create connected goals.
    Status Choose from a list of preset statuses or select Or set up rules to create a status rule.
    Start date Select the start date for this goal.
    Due date Select the due date for this goal.

    Screenshot of the editing experience for creating a new goal.

    Power BI automatically represents values in numeric notation. For example, 2044 is represented as 2 K.

  3. Select Save.

Step 3 (Optional): Create subgoals

You can define one or more subgoals for your goal. Like their parent goals, subgoals can be either connected or set manually. For more information, see Create subgoals.

Step 4 (Optional): Update the goal tracking cycle

All new goals created within scorecards have a default daily tracking cycle, which means that the data and progress are calculated on a day-to-day basis. However, many goals and subgoals need to be tracked on a different cadence. In those cases, you can change the default tracking cycle. The tracking cycle doesn't impact data refresh.

  1. Open a scorecard.

  2. Hover over any goal or subgoal, then select More options > See details.

    Screenshot that shows opening the details pane of a goal.

  3. Select the Time period tab.

  4. Set the tracking preferences for this goal, and select Save.

    Screenshot showing how to set the tracking cycle for your goal.

Step 5 (Optional): Share your scorecard and set permissions

Sharing is the easiest way to give people access to your scorecard in the Power BI service. To share, select the Share button in the scorecard action bar. You can choose whether the people you share with can share the scorecard with others, and whether they can access the underlying scorecard semantic model.

You can also set up goal-level permissions to control which goals different users can view and update within a scorecard. For more information, see Protect your scorecards with goal-level permissions.

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