I have one dashboards one with all data from all countries, and I would like one single dashboard for each country reusing the previous dataset. I would like to do that to minimize the space needed in cloud for those dashboards. Also there is users that only should have access to data to each own country.
I tried to create a parameter to filter by country but it is not allowed when I reuse a data set as data source.
Could you please help me to find a way to reuse dataset filtering by country in order to minimize the resources needed?
Thanks in advance
Either use Row-level security to define which rows should be visible to the current user, or make separate reports for each country and share the data source between them. If you use Direct Query, there will be single copy of the data. Or you can publish one report with data for all countries to the cloud, and use it as a data source for the per-country reports.
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I would like to extract automatically the data that is living in usage metrics section from power bi workspace in order to follow up the usage of the users in the company where I work for a change management initiative:
Is there any idea on how can I extract the data? maybe with and API or Power Automate? I'm not pretty sure if there is another reliable method to get the data from workspace and after storage it into a SQL data base to analyze it.
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We are having difficulty finding a method of sharing a dataset and allowing users to use that dataset to create and publish their own reports. This would include ability to create new measures (Dax) and then publish themselves. Using the "service" live connection does not seem to allow that and if not using that there seems to be an issue of refreshing the data once that dataset is downloaded and modified with new columns/measures etc.
Greatly appreciate any help on this. So far I have seen nothing that shows how to do any of this so I have to assume it may not be possible? Thank you.
Live Connect to a Power BI Dataset allows for local measures.
If you need more modeling changes when working with a remote Data Set, the DirectQuery for Power BI Datasets and AAS feature (currently in preview) enables you to mash-up remote Data Set tables, with local tables, and allows for adding calculated columns to remote tables.
But you should use this with some care, as the query processing is split between the local model and the remote model(s), which can cause performance issues.
I am working on a PowerBi project and I need some advice/questions on the best way to approach this project. I am tasked to create a dashboard for employee metrics pulled from an onsite SQL Server database. The managers here are going to have access to the PowerBi cloud, so I will end up uploading this to the cloud. There are 10 or so metrics that need to be shown on the dashboard. We have 5000+ employees. My first thought was to create a table and dump all the metrics into a table and set the PowerBi report to import the data, but that seems excessive and a waste of space to upload all that data to the CLOUD because all of the managers don't need access to every employee. They may want to see 1 or 2 employees' metrics on the dashboard.
My second thought is to (and if this is possible) create a stored procedure that will take the employee id and output a dataset for PowerBi to create a visual for. On the dashboard, have a list of employees and when a manager selects one, PowerBi will call the stored procedure with the employee id and the dataset will be returned for PowerBi to decipher into a visual based on my measurements. I guess I would set the PowerBi report connection type as DIRECT QUERY?
Here are my questions:
Is this possible? Is it possible to what I am thinking for my second plan? Is this how DIRECT QUERY works?
If so, how does DIRECT QUERY work with the PowerBi cloud?
What is setup like? Do I just install the PowerBi Data Gateway/configure it like IMPORT DATA and PowerBi does the rest?
A couple of queries:
What is the frequency of data update ?
In case if it is a batch job, it is ideally preferable to import that data from source into powerbi model and do reporting on the imported data as
a) The performance would be quicker
b) There would be no to and for of data across on prem database and cloud
c) the source would not be impacted constantly
So is the ask to have RLS wherein the managers should see only the employees under them?
Then it is pretty easy to implement RLS in imported version rather than in case of direct query.
Also you won't be able to pass parameters to stored procedures, and you can't execute them in direct query mode. You can however, create table valued functions which give you the ability to use table variables and perform other functions that are more complex in nature in Direct Query mode
you can refer this for additional details :
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Can-i-call-Stored-Procedure-with-Direct-Query/m-p/267141#:~:text=%40Pallavi%20you%20won't%20be,nature%20in%20Direct%20Query%20mode.
I am not able to implement row level security to my report. I have tried different methods on google and Microsoft forums but all in vain. Could you please help?
I have a dataset name "Cases" which have details of all cases logged into system with its country.
Then I have dataset name "Escalations" with details of the all the escalations along with its country.
Then there is one more table called "Country Mapping" which contains all the countries mapped with their Regions and Region Manager.
I have already prepared a report showing Global /Regional numbers But now people want to restrict the data according to its own territory.
Example :- Some want to see global data and some are responsible for a particular country. I know RLS can help me with this. I have tried to make two tables one with Username and country responsible and other one with just usernames and names.
I have made a relationship between all these tables. But the problem with the code is, like if I am the admin of the report then I need to manually add myself in the country responsible for every country. Like 146 countries .
Is there any better way to do this?
I am new to PowerBI. I have several stores. Now I want to make generic reports for all the stores. All the stores can see same reports. But the data for all the reports would be respective. That means particular store can see the data for itself. How can we achieve that?
I believe what you are trying to do can be achieved with row level security.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-admin-rls
Basically, you create roles for your reports which filter the data that is available to be seen by the people or groups that you assign to the roles.
E.g., if you had a Chicago store, you could create a "Chicago" role that filtered your data to only return parts of your data table (a filter specified like Store[City] = "Chicago") and then you'd give the relevant individuals or groups from Chicago that role so they'd be able to see that data.