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Copy pre-configured app workspace to external user account
Microsoft Employee
cheld wrote:
I am currently evaluating Power BI as part of an platform as a service app. We want to provide a pre-configured app workspace as a starting point. The requiremets are: Every customer will have his own SQL database. Customers should be able to customize reports and add own data sources.
My idea copy our template app workspace to the customer and then adjust the connection strings via the rest api.
- Is it possible to access an account outside our Azure Active Directoy with the rest api.
- Is it possible to copy an app workspace from one AAD tenant to another?
From Power BI side, it is not possible.
When mentioning "customers", so it is likely that you're an ISV? For ISVs, Embedding for your customers is the typical feature. You maintain reports/dashboards in your own Power BI workspaces for different customers and the customers could access the embedded objects in your web application. For this case, there's some automation process that can be developped, see this thread.
My questions is, while the customers have their own tenant, why they don't maintain their own workspaces? If they'd like you to maintain the workspaces in their tenant, they shall create a dedicated account in their tenant for you.