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Getting access token for user owns data (UOD) using JavaScript
I'm trying to prototype Power BI Embedded with User Owns Data (UOD) using Javascript. The provided sample on Github (https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript) works great; however, I'm not ab...
Further, looking at the OAuth 2.0 documentation, I assume that that for Power BI UOD embedded, we should be using the "Authorization code" grant type (as opposed to "Client credentials"). However, what's interesting is that I assume the resulting access token needs to be passed back to the browser so that the subsequent calls to powerbi.embed can be made using it.
austinhag - Could you identify which grant type to use in this scenario? I'm using ADAL.js to get the access token using "Client Credentials" but it returns id_toekn in Browser URL. I'm not sure how to get it from browser to load the tiles on javaScript page.