In Power BI Desktop, and in the Power BI Service, Maps and Filled Map visuals might show up as follows:
Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your report, it’s a new setting, announced in October last year.
The recent release of Power BI Desktop aligns the behaviors between Desktop and Service. When a user is signed in on Power BI Desktop, the Map and Filled Map visuals will be enabled or disabled based on their organization’s Admin settings.
If a user on Power BI Desktop attempts to view a Map visual when their tenant has not enabled the feature, they will be prompted to ask their admin to enable it:
To enable it, go to File -> Options and Settings -> Options -> Global -> Security and enable: “Use Map and Filled Map Visuals.”
New Power BI users will need to explicitly opt in to using these visuals. Otherwise, attempting to create a map visual will prompt users to enable them in their settings:
More information is available here:
Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
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It’s still not working even if I explicitly opted in to using these visuals.
Any suggestion to fix the problem?
Thanks
Giorgio
Did you restart Power BI Desktop?
If it does not work in the Power BI Service (powerbi.microsoft.com), then open the Admin Portal and in tenant settings, enable the Map and Filled Map Visuals setting.
Last but not least, you might want to check your firewall to provide access to the map url’s: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-map-tips-and-tricks
What worked for me is to enable ARCgis in PowerBI desktop, and on the online powerBI application in setting > ARCgis maps for PowerBI.
Could be a coincidence though
When I click on File -> Options and Settings -> Options, nothing happens… please note that I use Power BI on a Mac, using Windows 11 & Parallels…
Power BI Desktop is not supported on Mac, so that’s really strange you can use it on a Mac…
I’ve recently updated Power Bi Desktop (I only use the Desktop version, no web version, so no Admin portal).
Opened an earlier created Bi report with a Map visual (which was working before)
Changed the suggested setting, but still no Map after Bi Desktop restart.
Firewall should not be an issue, the Map in report was working before the update.
Suggestions to resolve this?
I use the free version of powerbi service and have no admin portal access to enable the azure map visual. I do have the use of the visual in the desktop version. How do I correct this issue?
I suggest to have a look here or ask here:
https://community.powerbi.com/
Hey, Have you solved this yet? I still struggling to find the solution 🙁 Would like to know how you solve this if you already did. Thank you!
I have the same problem. The settings for visuals are checked, I can access the map through Bing. This morning I was able to see the maps, but when I opened another file the error was there again and now I can’t see the maps on the first report either.
Any suggestions for fixing this?
I suggest to have a look here or ask here:
https://community.powerbi.com/
Ty, this works well on my PowerBI DeskTop, but not in the Web Service? How would i enable the map and map filling there?
I suggest to have a look here or ask here:
https://community.powerbi.com/
I have the map and filled map activated, I have used it and it came up , until when I had to continue with the work and it went went blank. I have tried all means to fix it
I suggest to have a look here or ask here:
https://community.powerbi.com/
I have the same issues using PowerBI desktop i.e. I have all the settings/firewall set but map visual refuses to work. As I need to give my customers dashboards that simply work, I have to consider eliminating maps and/or looking for an alternative to PowerBI
I suggest to have a look here or ask here:
https://community.powerbi.com/
I have the same issues using PowerBI desktop i.e. I have all the settings/firewall set but map visual refuses to work. As I need to give my customers dashboards that simply work, I have to consider eliminating maps and/or looking for an alternative to PowerBI