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Frequent Visitor

2 years ago

Data viewers need contributor access to view shortcutted lakehouse data

A group of users are data consumers and should have read access to data in a lakehouse in a workspace in order to consume the data. If we make the data available in the lakehouse via a Fabric shortc...

Data Modeling

Shreya_Barhate

Resolver II

2 years ago

Hi RichardMartin ,
Shortcut tables are only for reading data, so even with contributor access, one cannot modify the data. However, one can delete the shortcut tables with contributor access.

If you want to provide only read/viewer access to shortcut tables, you can assign the ‘Viewer’ role for the workspace. Additionally, you can configure the OneLake data access role for the specific shortcut table and grant read permission.