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Creating Lightning Web Components for Power BI embedding requires significant development effort, ongoing maintenance for authentication, API integration, and error handling that most teams want to avoid.
Here’s a no-code alternative that delivers similar dashboard functionality without custom development or the technical complexity that LWCs introduce.
CoefficientSkip custom development with
Building LWCs for Power BI integration means writing code for authentication flows, handling API errors, managing refresh tokens, and maintaining compatibility as both platforms update their APIs. This creates ongoing technical debt that requires developer resources to maintain.
SalesforceInstead, you can create self-updating dashboards in Google Sheets that embed directly inLightning pages with immediate implementation and no coding required.
How to make it work
Step 1. Set up automated data imports.
Connect Coefficient to your Salesforce environment and import data from any object or report. Schedule automatic refreshes hourly, daily, or weekly to keep dashboards current without manual intervention.
Step 2. Combine multiple data sources.
Import data from Salesforce alongside other business systems in unified dashboards. This gives you a complete view that’s often difficult to achieve with custom LWC development.
Step 3. Build dynamic calculations.
Use Formula Auto Fill Down to automatically apply calculations to new data. When your scheduled refresh adds new records, formulas copy down automatically to create dynamic KPIs that update without manual intervention.
Step 4. Create responsive visualizations.
Build charts and pivot tables using Google Sheets’ native capabilities. These maintain mobile responsiveness in the Salesforce mobile app, often performing better than custom LWC solutions.
Step 5. Embed without custom components.
Add your Google Sheets dashboards to Lightning pages using standard embedding functionality. No custom component development, deployment, or ongoing maintenance required.
Focus on insights, not infrastructure
Start creatingYour time is better spent analyzing data than building and maintaining custom components. This approach provides robust dashboard functionality with immediate implementation and reliable performance.embedded Salesforce dashboards without writing a single line of code.
