I created the Report in PowerBi desktop and Published in the PowerBI service. In the workspace we have 4 users each of them from different region, I need to set the RLS from the user table. The requirement is I should not use the available option "Manage Roles" in PowerBi desktop.
Kindly share your thoughts!!!
Thanks
Using RLS in this way is currently not supported.
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Manage Roles option under Modeling menu in power bi desktop getting greyed out when we use "Connect live" method to get data from analysis service for the report.
It is available when we use "Import" method to get the data.
We have a Power BI report which uses live connection to get data from azure analysis service. One requirement we have is to restrict the users to their relevant data alone. For example, a team lead should see the data of his/her team members alone. We tried Row Level Security (RLS) in Power BI to do this by creating roles and setting filter on required column and it works fine when we use the import data option from azure analysis service. But when we try to do the same using "Connect live" method, the "Manage Roles" option under Modeling ribbon gets greyed out in power bi desktop. I can't create roles and so no filtering.
Please help me on this. Also point me in the right direction if I'm doing wrong.
I'm exploring Power BI RLS. I understand that roles (along with the filter criteria) are to be created in the PBI desktop and users are to be added into the roles via the PBI service. Then, when a user opens the report, the RLS will automatically show only those rows that satisfy the filter criteria.
This question is to ask - how does RLS behave with dashboard tiles? For example - say visuals from multiple reports (each report having RLS) are pinned as tiles onto a dashboard.
Does opening a dashboard ensure that RLS is applied to the pinned visuals?
I have read it somewhere that dashboards retain the tile values for 15 minutes. Does this also mean that RLS is also cached? For example - say RLS membership is updated, then will the dashboard tile immediately reflect the visual tile based on the new RLS?
yes RLS applies to pinned visuals in a dashboard. it applies in the same way as a report. Cache is a browser setting. You might also want to explore Goals while you on the same topic.
I want to share a dataset with another user in Power BI Service. Obviously I want him to see the data the dataset provides. But I'm concerned about the possibility of a leakage.
Can the user who get's the shared dataset:
see the connection string details?
export the pbix?
edit the dataset in some way?
trigger an update?
share it with others?
delete it?
This depends on the end user's privileges as set by the administrator of the premium workspace if this is what you are referring to.
For more information on this please see the attached roles that can be granted on a workspace level:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-new-workspaces#roles-in-the-new-workspaces
You can also share individual reports on a read-only level in Power Bi service (premium workspace).
If you do not have a premium workspace (you plan to share using your personal workspace):
The user of the report needs to have Power Bi pro license - Find more information here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-purchasing-power-bi-pro
I am wanting to know how secure Row-Level Security is.
We are currently working on creating a dashboard that would be shared with 500 users within our organisation. All of these users are managers and we would be using dynamic row-level security so that each user would only be able to view information in the dashboard related to their own team.
I have tested RLS and it worked fine, but I have had another Power Bi user tell me that RLS is not completely secure as my base data is coming from excel. My base data is in excel, but I convert it into a pbix file in Power Bi desktop before creating the role, then publishing to power bi service, where I assign users to the role and give read only access.
I am wondering once I have shared the dashboard with these users is there any way for them to get around the RLS and access the base data?
Thanks in advance,
Amy
There are a number of factors to consider for imported data.
If the user can download the report, they could remove the role and access all the data. I would recommend turning this off in the Power BI Admin protal for selected users, or an AD group.
They could connect to the dataset via Excel or another report and get the data that way without the role level filter being used. Having them as read only is one way of stopping them altering the report. I would suggest deploying the report as an app, then they can only access the surfaced report not the underlying dataset.
I am running in this strange issue:
first I prepared some report with power BI desktop
then I go into "Manage Role" to create a rule that show data only for region ="Italy"
I upload the report to the power BI Services
I go to the security tab under dataset and associate some users (myuser#mytenant.com) to the rule
Finally I create a sharepoint page, where I embed the reports I prepared
When I access the report with myuser#mytenant.com I see all the data and not only the region = "Italy" as desired.
What is wrong with the rule?
Another strange thing is, testing the rule is fine, when I test an user the rule doesn't work...
Anybody anyidea?
thx a lot!
The typical "gotcha" is that the Power BI App Workspace (group) settings are left to the default: Members can edit Power BI content. For RLS to work, this needs to be changed to Members can only view Power BI content.
You make this change by logging in to app.powerbi.com (as a group admin), and using the left nav to choose the App Workspace (group) and then Edit Workspace.
This is described in the doco:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-admin-rls#using-rls-with-app-workspaces-in-power-bi
If you publish your Power BI Desktop report to a workspace within the Power BI service, the roles will be applied to on read-only members. You will need to indicate that members can only view Power BI content within the workspace settings.
Note:
If you have configured the workspace so that members have edit permissions, the RLS roles will not be applied to them. Users will be able to see all of the data.
official documentation: Using RLS with workspaces in Power BI