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jmia
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9 years ago

REST API - Refresh User Metadata

Hello,   I am working on an AngularJS SPA that uses Azure AD authentication and integrates with Power BI to display reports and dashboards via the Power BI REST API. I am using ADAL.js for the auth...
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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

jmia

Thanks for your reporting. Based on my test, the Power BI groups API indeed works as your description, the API won't return the group until the refreshusermetadata API is called. My understanding is that this is most probably by design.

 

Since the group in Power BI is actually the O365 group, as a workaround, instead of using Power BI REST API, you could try to call the GRAPH group API to read  the groups member information. The list group member API returns group members immediately when I adding a member to one group.

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    jmia
    New Member
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, that is an interesting idea. If I do that, is there an easy way to tell which groups coming back are associated with Power BI Workspaces? I'll look into it.

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      Eric_Zhang
      Microsoft Employee
      9 years ago
      jmia wrote:

      Thanks for the suggestion, that is an interesting idea. If I do that, is there an easy way to tell which groups coming back are associated with Power BI Workspaces? I'll look into it.

      jmia

      You could try to call the GROUP API and filter O365 groups owned/created by Power BI users in that tenant.