Connect your app to Power BI
Connect your Lovable app to Power BI to query your organization's existing data models and measures. This allows you to display accurate charts, tables, and metric summaries directly in your app.
Anyone who needs to display vetted business data and metrics from Power BI inside their Lovable application.
Do this, in order
- 1
Create an App Registration in the Microsoft Entra admin center and generate a new client secret.
Lovable needs an application identity and secure credentials to request data from Microsoft on your behalf.
- 2
Ask a Fabric or Power BI admin to enable public API access and the 'Semantic Model Execute Queries REST API' setting in the tenant admin portal.
Power BI will reject all data query requests from external apps if these tenant-level permissions are turned off.
- 3
Add your registered application or your user account as a Member or Contributor in your Power BI workspace.
The connecting account must have build permissions on the workspace to read its structure and query the datasets.
- 4
Navigate to Connectors in Lovable, choose Power BI, and select Connect.
This opens the configuration screen where you link your Microsoft credentials to Lovable.
- 5
Select your connection type ('Use your own credentials' for automated access or 'Use your own OAuth app' for user login) and enter your Tenant ID, Client ID, and Client Secret.
These values authenticate your project through Lovable's secure gateway to access your Power BI resources.
- 6
Optionally enter a Default semantic model ID and click Connect to verify and save.
Testing verifies your credentials immediately, and setting a default model lets your app start querying without extra navigation.
Paste this into your project
Use Power BI to connect to our Sales semantic model and build an executive KPI dashboard that displays this quarter's revenue, margin, and pipeline, with filters for region and month.
Words decoded
- Semantic model
- A structured Power BI dataset containing raw data tables, relationships, and pre-calculated business formulas.
- DAX
- Data Analysis Expressions, the formula language used by Power BI to calculate custom metrics and totals.
- Service principal
- An automated system identity inside Microsoft Entra that acts like a service account instead of an individual person.
- Row-level security (RLS)
- A Power BI security filter that restricts which specific rows of data a given user is allowed to see.
Where people get stuck
- Service principal connections fail on datasets that use row-level security (RLS) or Direct Lake single sign-on.
- Service principals cannot access personal 'My workspace' environments; use a shared group workspace instead.
- When your Microsoft Entra client secret expires, the connection will break until you generate a new secret and update Lovable.
- A successful connection test only confirms authentication with Microsoft; it does not confirm permission on individual datasets.
- The connector is strictly read-only and cannot push updates to your database, trigger dataset refreshes, or embed native Power BI frames.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.