I'm kind of new to PBI and I'm looking if it's the right tool for my case.
I would like to use Power BI Embedded in a web application for our customer (where they're logged in) which do not have any Power BI account/licence.
The database on which the reports are based are on-premise so we're would use Analysis Service Live Connection to access them.
Each customer should have his own report.
Is it possible to use RLS in that case?
Does that mean we've to create a role for each of them?
What username should be given in the EffectiveIdentity? Is it 'free text' that is used by PBI to get the username in the DAX?
If each customer will have his own report, then why do you need RLS at all? Just make the report to show what the user is supposed to see. Or you want to have a single report (or set of reports), which is shared between the users and they should see only their data? I will assume it is the later one.
I will start with the last question - the effective identity is not a "free text". It must be a valid user name, having rights to access the data, as specified in the documentation:
The effective identity that is provided for the username property must be a Windows user with permissions on the Analysis Services server.
The you can define RLS in your Analysis Service model, by adding a "users security" table, where you specify which rows should be visible to each user. Define relationships between this users security table and other tables in the model, and then let RLS to filter the data in the security table. The relationships with the rest of the model will apply cascade filtering on the data, so only relevant rows will be visible to the user. See Implement row-level security in an Analysis Services tabular model for example.
So the answer of your second question is no, you don't need a separate role for each user, because the filtering is based on the username and for every user it filters the same thing the same way.
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I am importing insurance data (view - having global data ) from Amazon redshift through ODBC connection. I want to apply RLS based on country and contract signed date ( for each country, contract signed date is different.)
Report is published in workspace (new workspace type with premium licence applied)
Requirement is to create role for each country and create one role as a global where we will see the data for all country after particular date(date column is available in view)
I want to assign 2 roles to single user.
For ex. XYZ person want to see global data as well as Australia's data.
Can you tell me what will be the output for this?
Is it possible to apply Row Level Security in above scenario ?
I think, there is no need to create two role for single user.
If you give user to global role then user can view global data and even he can filter for Australia's data. If you are putting country filter in the reports.
I have the next model in SSAS cube:
(Clients connect to the fact table too)
As seen, a filter in User Access will propagate all the way to the fact…
If I have a dynamic role security with some filter on DAX in User access, will it be applied even if I don’t put/select User access table in the frontend in Power BI??
Per my test, the filter gets applied only if I use a filter from that table, if I don’t use that table the dynamic security does not get applied, why is this??
You should be using the role to filter your security table.
This filters the [_login_id] column of the security table for the user.
With this filter propagating to related tables, the user cannot see any rows hidden by the RLS filter.
There are two important exceptions to this rule though. SSAS admins can see all data regardless of any filters, and in Power BI, if you are an admin, member, or contributor in the workspace, you have access to all the data and RLS does not apply to you. For testing, use the "Test as role" function from the RLS settings in the Power BI Service.
I would like to allow users privileges by region with PBI DAX expression implementation to first get USERPRINCIPALNAME then proceed to get their region.
User Table:
Scenario:
When Shaun login to powerBI service. He only can view the dashboard and dataset in region R10.
If you have multiple tables you want to control with dynamic security, you might prefer an approach based on the propagation of the security filters through the relationships instead of using a DAX expression for every table you want to filter.
What we have to do is to create a new role and use this code to apply security filter for the user table :
[EMAIL]= USERPRINCIPALNAME()
The second thing to do is to apply bi-directionnal filtering for the relationship betwen user_region and region.
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.
We currently host data for multiple users in our database. I'd like to implement embedded power BI into our web app. When the user logs into our system, I'd like the data source to be filtered according to the user that is logged in, so e.g. SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE ItemID in (ItemID1, ItemID2) etc..., we aren't going to know what ItemID1, ItemID2 etc... are until after the user has logged on.
Is this possible with PowerBI embedded?
To filter data for Power BI users based on which user is logging in to the embedded web app, complete the following:
Sample:
Create a table to store the usernames for each filter "group."
You will use DAX to create a measure to identify the users from your table, and assign them to a specific user role group. Below is the DAX to use:
[USERNAME] = [Current User]
Create the measure described in point #2 in the Row-Level security settings. By creating different "groups" for the users, you are essentially dynamically-building a "filter," where you only show the users what they should be seeing--thus resulting in pseudo-filtering. For more information see the following:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-tutorial-row-level-security-onprem-ssas-tabular
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Restricting-filters-to-specific-users-in-Power-BI-report/td-p/109111
Hope this helps!