https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/Open-Power-BI-Desktop-as-Read-only-if-another-person-is-in-the/idi-p/4680697 <P>For every other Microsoft application, there is a mode where if a colleague has open, let's say an excel file, on their machine and I try to open that same file, the file opens for me as read-only. Furthermore, I am unable to override the existing file unless I am the first to open it.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I don't understand why this not a feature for power bi desktop files and would strongly suggest that it is. I don't even care about real time collaboration. Right now we have to have Teams chats to coordinate who is in the file when and on more then a few occasions, we have overwritten one another. This seems like an easy fix but I am sure I am oversimplifying it.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 05 May 2025 16:21:21 GMT nrsmith4 2025-05-05T16:21:21Z https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/Open-Power-BI-Desktop-as-Read-only-if-another-person-is-in-the/idi-p/4680697 <P>For every other Microsoft application, there is a mode where if a colleague has open, let's say an excel file, on their machine and I try to open that same file, the file opens for me as read-only. Furthermore, I am unable to override the existing file unless I am the first to open it.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I don't understand why this not a feature for power bi desktop files and would strongly suggest that it is. I don't even care about real time collaboration. Right now we have to have Teams chats to coordinate who is in the file when and on more then a few occasions, we have overwritten one another. This seems like an easy fix but I am sure I am oversimplifying it.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 05 May 2025 16:21:21 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/Open-Power-BI-Desktop-as-Read-only-if-another-person-is-in-the/idi-p/4680697 nrsmith4 2025-05-05T16:21:21Z