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Object Level Security "Reverse" Role
Hello,
I've went through several youtube video and googling on how to specifically hide certain columns from users from creating roles.
However, after research, it seems that i have to manually input the users based on the roles, in order for those users to unable see the columns that I don't want them to see.
But this is not what I want. In fact, I want the reverse.
What I like to achieve is that ONLY specific people who's on the role can see ALL data, and if user's who's not in the role cannot see certain columns.
To put it into context, says I creata a role called 'HR'. And I have a selected invididuals, i.e. Mary, Jane and John who is in this 'HR' role. Everyone in the company has access to the power bi report. Thus, if it's Mary, Jane and John, they are able to see all columns (i.e. Employee Name and Salary). Any other person who have access to the report, except Mary, Jane and John, although able to see the report, but unable to see the employee name and salary.
How do I go about doing it?
Is there a way to have the role to be NOT EQUAL?
createOrReplace
role NOT EQUAL HR (original is role HR)
modelPermission: read
tablePermission 'Table Name'
columnPermission 'Employee Name' = read
columnPermission 'Salary' = read
annotation PBI_Id = some number and textHi JustDavid
If you have applied built-in restrictions on certain columns, non-HR users won’t be able to access them directly, which can sometimes cause errors in matrix visuals. To avoid this, you can either:
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Remove the restricted columns from the matrix entirely for non-HR users.
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Use role-based logic to conditionally display blank (e.g : Restricted) in those columns for unauthorized users.
Reference : Object-Level Security (OLS) with Power BI - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
Hope this helps,
Thank You.-
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Hello !
Thank you for posting on MS Fabric community.
You need to create 2 AAD groups :
HR_SeeSensitive : members: Mary, Jane, John
AllEmployees: all other users
Then create 2 model roles via tabular editor / TOM :
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HR : modelPermission: Read and leave the sensitive columns at read or default so HR sees everything
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NonHR : modelPermission: Read andset the sensitive columns to none so they’re invisible to this role
{ "name": "NonHR", "modelPermission": "read", "tablePermissions": [ { "name": "Employee", "columnPermissions": [ { "name": "Employee Name", "metadataPermission": "none" }, { "name": "Salary", "metadataPermission": "none" } ] } ] }then publish and map groups to roles in the service
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map HR_SeeSensitive to HR role
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map AllEmployees to NonHR role
AmiraBedh thank you for replying.
Am a newbie in this RLS/OLS so do not really follow what you're doing here.First of all, I do not have Tabular Editor as when I try to download, it is no longer free. Also, need to submit ticket to IT to have it installed.
However, I realized that Power BI built-in TMDL seems to work like Tabular.
Secondly, can I assume that when you said "create 2 AAD groups" you're referring to roles in Power BI under 'Modeling' / 'Manage roles'?
Secondly, on your code where you showed the TMDL, you have a section for
"name": "Employee",May I know is this where I need to input the employees email address?
If it is, if I have multiple emails of employees to input, how do I go about doing it?
EDIT:
I have tried doing what you've told me without the complex, and it doesn't work to my expectation.
1st, I create 2 roles:
- HR
- All Employees
Under HR, this is what I have set on TMDL
createOrReplace role HR modelPermission: read tablePermission 'factTable' columnPermission 'Employee Name' = read columnPermission 'Salary' = read annotation PBI_Id = 28235dc3b86e485bbe8108f6a2b214fdUnder All, this is what I have set on TMDL
createOrReplace role 'All Employees' modelPermission: read tablePermission 'factTable' columnPermission 'Employee Name' = none columnPermission 'Salary' = none annotation PBI_Id = e7eac03c32ad4c90937cfb78ddbad2e2I upload it to my workspace and then under 'Security', I have set Mary, Jane and John to be in HR. The other employees (hundreds of them), I DID NOT put them under 'All Employees' role.
However, when I test view with 'All Employee', the matrix table that I have setup is giving me an error (screenshot below).
What did I do wrong here?
I was expecting that at least, 'All Employee' user can see other columns in the matrix table, except the 'Employee Name' and 'Salary' columns that I had "hide" via OLS
Hello Davis !
I am glad to help, we all learning here 🙂
With OLS, hidden columns don’t just disappear from the fields pane they’re not addressable at all so any visual or measure that use them will fail for users in the deny role.
OLS is allow by default which means to deny columns to everyone except HR, you must assign a deny role to everyone.
You need an AAD group that includes everyone who uses the report and add it under the dataset security tab and map it to your all employees role.
If you need more help please tell me.
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Hi David,
Have you had a chance to look through the responses shared earlier? If anything is still unclear, we’ll be happy to provide additional support.
