Add reporting features to your model-driven app on PowerApps

Add reporting features to your model-driven app

Power Apps apps can include reports that provide useful business information to the user. These reports are based on SQL Server Reporting Services and provide the same set of features that are available for typical SQL Server Reporting Services reports.

System reports are available to all users. Individuals who create or otherwise own reports can share them with specific colleagues or teams, or can make the reports available to the organization, so that all users can run them. These reports use FetchXML queries that are proprietary to Common Data Service and retrieve data to build the report. Reports that you create in a Power Apps app are Fetch-based reports.

 Note

Report features don't work with canvas apps or model-driven apps running on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones.

Add reporting to a Unified Interface app

You can add fetch-based reporting functionality to your app so that users can run, share, create, and edit reports. To do this, you add the report entity to your app's site map.

1. Sign in to Power Apps and open an existing app for editing.

2. In App Designer, select  next to Site Map.

3. In the Sitemap Designer, select Add and then select Area.

4. In the Title box, enter a name for the area title, such as Reports.

5. Select the area that you named in the previous step, select Add, select Group, and then in the group Title box enter a name for the group title, such as Reports.

6. Select the group that you named in the previous step, select Add, select Subarea and then include the following properties:

   • Type. Select Entity.

   • Entity. From the list of entities, select the Report entity.

   • Title. Enter a descriptive title, such as Reports.

     

7. Select Save and Close to return to the app designer.

8. In App Designer select Save, and then select Publish.

Now the app displays a Reports area where users can view, run, assign, share, and edit the reports they have permission to as well as create new reports using the report wizard.

Options for creating new reports

You can create a new report in one of two ways:

• Use the Report Wizard. Open a model-driven app that has been enabled for reporting and run the Report Wizard to create a new report. The Report Wizard can create table and chart reports, including drill-through reports and top N reports. More information: Create a report using the Report Wizard
• Use the Report Authoring Extension. You can write new or customize existing fetch-based Reporting Services reports with Visual Studio, SQL Server Data Tools, and the Report Authoring Extension. More information: Create a new report using SQL Server Data Tools

Report visibility

Standard entity reports, such as the Accounts Summary report for the account entity, are available to all app users. Users who own reports can share them with specific colleagues or teams. System administrators and system customizers can make reports available with organization-wide visibility, so that all users can use them. For information about how to share a report, see Share a report with other users and teams.

Reports in solutions

Reports are solution aware. Adding a report as a component to a solution makes it become a single unit of software that extends Power Apps functionality and the user interface. Only reports that are visible to the organization can be added to solutions.

To find if a report is viewable to the organization: In the list of reports, open a model-driven app, select a report, and then select Edit. On the Administration tab, see if Viewable By is set to Organization.

You can add, import, or export snapshots of reports as part of a solution. In model-driven apps, reports, sub reports, report category, report display area, and report-related record type are considered as components of a report set. When you import a solution update in non-overwrite mode, any updates by the solution to a report will be ignored if any component of the report set has been customized.

Related topics

Work with reports
Create a report using the Report Wizard
Add a report from outside Power Apps
Edit the default filter of a report
Troubleshoot reports