topic Re: Hide content based on username in DAX Commands and Tips

Hide content based on username

marama — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:27:33 GMT

Hi!
I want only specific users to be able to see the content of the column, so I was hoping to be able to create a measure like this:

note_masked = IF(USERPRINCIPALNAME()="xxx@xxx.xxx", 'table'[note] , "XXXX")

But it does not work, because it's a measure (hence aggregation). What would be the right approach here, how to achieve the goal?

Re: Hide content based on username

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:59:02 GMT

Hi marama,

If you want to restrict specific end user to have access to specific columns, I suggest you to try OLS (preview) which could be configured in third party tool : Tabular Editor .

Object-level security (OLS) enables model authors to secure specific tables or columns from report viewers.

For reference:

Announcing public preview of Object-Level Security in Power BI

Object Level Security In Power BI

Implementing Object-level Security in Power BI

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Re: Hide content based on username

marama — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:00:21 GMT

I believe I've made it work by using

FIRSTNONBLANK

Re: Hide content based on username

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:25:13 GMT

Hi marama ,

I am so gald that you could solve your problem by yourself. Please kindly Accept your workaround as the solution. More people will benefit from it. Or you are still confused about it, please provide me with more details about your problem or share me with your pbix file without sensitive data.

Best Regards,

Rico Zhou

Re: Hide content based on username

Orstenpowers — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:14:44 GMT

marama !
Hi, I do have similar problem like you had.

What was the measure finally looking like? Could you post it? Thx!