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Collaboration in Dataflows?

Does anyone here have advice (from documentation or from experience) for working with dataflows as part of a dev team?   Ideally, we'd like for more than one person to familiarize themselves with h...
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1 year ago

For the benefit of anyone referencing this post at a future time - this does not appear to be how it works as of today. Clicking to see a DataflowGen2 prompts you to take-over the flow in order to interact with it. If there is another way to view it, I have not found it in the UI or the documentation.

 

The prompt:

 

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1 year ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

Thanks for the reply from lbendlin .

 

I can reproduce your error, after I assign the role of workspace to the guest user, that user opens the dataflow with this error message screen you have.

 

I think this is the difference between inside and outside the organization, when I assign workspace role to a user inside the organization, that user is able to access dataflow normally and take over him.

 

Can you please try to access dataflow with someone inside the organization.

 

If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

 

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If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

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    Anonymous
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    1 year ago

    Both I, and the individual who created this flow are priveledged users in the organization's fabric environment. The same behavior can be observed between any two individuals (working on dataflows) within the organization. That, together with the text in the message, strongly imply that this is intended behavior.

     

    I actually can't find any official documentation on this behavior. Every search result is a microsoft community link (or similar).

     

    The question is seeking advice on working with this limitation. Yes, I am able to take over the flow, but the workflow is highly unusual for a development team. The suggestion by Ibendlin to export the .JSON is helpful. It's workable, but the inability for team-members to view flows without wrangling a service account or manually importing the .json flows slows down development and limits knowledge transfer (both decreasing the chance that the organization will actually make the most effective use of Fabric that it could).