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Scorecard Access
Good morning ☺️
I created a prototype scorecard with six goals and many levels of sub goals . I tested this with a small pilot group. This included organisation wide goals but the user could drill down through sub-goals to departmental level.
I then created a second scorecard and linked into my original prototype, three goals and many sub goals. The user could drill down through sub-goals to departmental level.
I then created a third scorecard and linked to my second scorecard, all three goals, however, only for a particular department - let's call the department WD.
I wanted to provide only people who work in the WD department, access to this scorecard. I had trouble granting access to these people so I ended up thinking that I needed to give them view permission for both the prototype scorecard and the second scorecard and then the WD scorecard. This worked, and they are now able to access the WD scorecard. The thing is, they can now see the prototype scorecard and the second scorecard in their workspace, which I don't want them to be able to do.
Is anyone able to assist me with this so that they have view access to only the WD scorecard please?.
Hi AmandaMW ,
Thank you for reaching out to fabric community.
This is expected behavior with Power BI / Fabric Scorecards. When you link goals between scorecards, users need permission to the source scorecards that contain the linked goals. As a result:
- Granting access only to the WD scorecard is not enough if it contains linked goals from the prototype or second scorecard.
- To resolve permission errors, you had to give them access to the parent scorecards, but that also makes those scorecards visible in their Scorecards list.
Unfortunately, there isn't currently a way to hide parent scorecards while still allowing users to access linked goals from them. Permissions are applied at the scorecard level, not the individual linked goal level.
Below are the Possible workarounds:
- Create a standalone WD scorecard instead of linking goals from parent scorecards (duplicate the required goals if necessary).
- If maintaining linked goals is essential, users will need access to the parent scorecards, and they will remain visible.
- If this limitation affects your implementation, consider submitting feedback through the Microsoft Fabric Ideas portal for more granular scorecard permissions.
At present, there is no built-in feature that allows users to view only a child scorecard while hiding the linked parent scorecards.
Thanks!!
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Hi AmandaMW ,
Thank you for reaching out to fabric community.
This is expected behavior with Power BI / Fabric Scorecards. When you link goals between scorecards, users need permission to the source scorecards that contain the linked goals. As a result:
- Granting access only to the WD scorecard is not enough if it contains linked goals from the prototype or second scorecard.
- To resolve permission errors, you had to give them access to the parent scorecards, but that also makes those scorecards visible in their Scorecards list.
Unfortunately, there isn't currently a way to hide parent scorecards while still allowing users to access linked goals from them. Permissions are applied at the scorecard level, not the individual linked goal level.
Below are the Possible workarounds:
- Create a standalone WD scorecard instead of linking goals from parent scorecards (duplicate the required goals if necessary).
- If maintaining linked goals is essential, users will need access to the parent scorecards, and they will remain visible.
- If this limitation affects your implementation, consider submitting feedback through the Microsoft Fabric Ideas portal for more granular scorecard permissions.
At present, there is no built-in feature that allows users to view only a child scorecard while hiding the linked parent scorecards.
Thanks!!
Thank you so much for confirming. Really appreciate your response 🙂
