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EmetSelch
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6 years ago
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shared content, external user

Greetings,   I have some questions regarding the sharing of report to external users with the mobile app on iPad. There's no problem with him viewing the report in web view, so access is not a prob...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    HI EmetSelch ,

    Unfortunately, external sharing not able to save shared contents, these users can only viewed by click on the shared email links.
    If you shared with organizations accounts, they can find shared content in 'shared with me' menu.
    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

HI EmetSelch ,

Unfortunately, external sharing not able to save shared contents, these users can only viewed by click on the shared email links.
If you shared with organizations accounts, they can find shared content in 'shared with me' menu.
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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Wajsity
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6 years ago

Hello, 

 

I going to face the same access issue as described above in this thread and want to provide our customers with up-to-date information. Therefore, I would like to ask you if you are planning to enable also users from external organizations to access shared content directly via mobile app? If so, when is the implementation estimated?

 

Thank you very much for any advise!

 

 

 

 

  • mshenhav's avatar
    mshenhav
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    6 years ago

    Hey Wajsity ,

     

    There is no change in the app in that behavior at this point.

    As a solution, people create report in the user's home tenant that holds the link to the report shared from external tenant. That way they don't need to go back to the sharing email for the link.

     

    Can that be a solution for your customers?

     

    Maya

    • Wajsity's avatar
      Wajsity
      Frequent Visitor
      6 years ago

      Thank you for your quick reply.

      I think it's a good workaround and I will offer it to our customers if they will ask for the option to see reports direct within the app. Hopefully I will be sufficient solution for them.

       

      Wajsity

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        Hi Wajsity how did that workaround go over?

         

        I've shared to an external client, and because they aren't getting the best experience with the Power BI Mobile app, they want to get the PBIX file to import into their tenant...

         

        1, that is a lot of work to reshare, and 2, I don't even know if that's possible for them to use our SharePoint Online data...

         

        I've thought about seeing if I can have them set up Safari Home Screen iPad shortcuts because of how silly this is.