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Sharing data sets
Hi jerics99,
Content Packs are only available when you and your colleagues have Power BI Pro. Reference: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-organizational-content-packs-introduction/ .
As you want to share a dataset with colleagues that use the free license, you can copy the PBIX file out to a folder and share the folder to your colleagues, from my point of perspective, this is what smoupre means by sharing. There is no option in Power BI desktop to share PBIX file.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Hi jerics99,
Content Packs are only available when you and your colleagues have Power BI Pro. Reference: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-organizational-content-packs-introduction/ .
As you want to share a dataset with colleagues that use the free license, you can copy the PBIX file out to a folder and share the folder to your colleagues, from my point of perspective, this is what smoupre means by sharing. There is no option in Power BI desktop to share PBIX file.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Thanks for your response Lydia. Buying the Pro licenses is definitly an option, we are allready trying it. However we have not been able to share datasets even with the Pro licenses...?
Background: I would like to let different users in my organization use excel pivot tables using a shared dataset as data source. I have not managed to get that to work though. I have published at Power BI Desktop model to Power BI, but unfortunately I am the only user that can query the data set even though its included in a Group shared with other users....?
For your information. Our initial plan was to set up a virtual machine with SSAS in our Azure instanse, but it got failry expensive so we instead thought that Power BI would be a better alternative.
Kind Regards,
-Eric