Power BI integration within SharePoint lists and libraries is going to be retired. This change impacts customers who currently use the ‘Visualize the List’ or ‘Visualize the Library’ feature to create or access reports directly from SharePoint.
This blog post provides details about the deprecation timeline and recommended alternatives to continue working with SharePoint list data in Power BI.
Deprecation Timeline
| Date | Action |
| November 11th, 2025 | No new reports can be created from a SharePoint list or library using Visualize the list or the library |
| December 11th, 2025 | Any previously published reports created using this integration will no longer be available. |
Recommended alternatives
Explore and analyze SharePoint list data in Power BI through the following approaches:
1. Export to Power BI directly from SharePoint list
You can quickly create a semantic model in the Power BI service directly from a SharePoint list.
To learn more, refer to the Create a semantic model from a SharePoint List documentation.
Once the semantic model is ready, you can explore your data with just a few clicks using Auto-create report, offering a similar experience to ‘Visualize the List’ or ‘Visualize the Library’.
To learn more about how to use autogenerated ‘quick’ reports in Power BI, check out Create a Power BI semantic model directly from a SharePoint list documentation.
2. Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop
If you need advanced modelling or data transformation, you can connect to the SharePoint list from Power BI Desktop.
You can find more information about how to create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop in the Create a report on a SharePoint List in Power BI Desktop documentation.
Important notice and call to action
Starting December 11, 2025, all reports previously created using the ‘Visualize the List’ or ‘Visualize the Library’ features will become permanently unavailable.
To avoid data loss, we strongly recommend that users recreate any critical reports using the alternative methods outlined above before this date.