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Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

nicksav — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:07:54 GMT

Microsoft, can you please let me know if there is an internal api or any other way how we can get the currently log in user and the report id/page from the custom Visual iframe? I have been digging into powerbi variable and sandbox varilable and cant find any relevant information. Is it actually possible?

Also, I know that from the IFrame we have access to power BI token. Would I be able to call a graph api let's say or azure AD to get the user information based on this token?

Please help, the rocket visual idea is just waiting for your reply!

Cheers!

Nick

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

nicksav — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:30 GMT

More info:

Is there any way to post message back to parent from IFRAME to get access to tgose variables:

    var powerbi = {
        session : {
            userInfo: {
                name:  'Bla.Bla@test.com.au',
                givenName: 'Bla',
                surname: 'Bla',
                puid: '1003BFsasdFD875827CD',
                uoid: '2a20as672d-8cb8-4482-92ec-bb19s15f1790c',
                alternateEmail: ''
            }
        }
    };

    var tenantId = '029b6basd23-fa07-48ba-9639-72aasdf0a673729';

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

v-chuncz-msft — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:04:20 GMT

@nicksav,

There is a related open issue on GitHub, you may leave a comment.

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

nicksav — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:45:34 GMT

That's bad. Nobody is looking into github from msft

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

v-chuncz-msft — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:48:56 GMT

@nicksav,

Not exactly, we can see the progress regularly.

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

blumi78 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:59:36 GMT

@all, @v-chuncz-msft Are there any updates on this? Current user and report/page id is exactly what we need for our product.

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

v-viig — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:05:17 GMT

Please open an issue in our GitHub to track the status.

Please include a small description why you need to know who uses the report.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

Sunkari — Thu, 24 May 2018 13:37:58 GMT

@nicksav: Any solution for this issue.

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

v-viig — Fri, 25 May 2018 06:22:32 GMT

This feature is still on the backlog as there's a security concern regarding sharing user id and report id.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

blumi78 — Fri, 25 May 2018 06:53:32 GMT

Mr Vilesov, could you please explain those security concerns, so that we (the developers) can argue about that with our bosses why we can't have this feature in Power BI (but all other BI platforms have this)?

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

Sunkari — Fri, 25 May 2018 10:07:54 GMT

@v-viig Thanks for the update.

Due to this, we are unable to drill-down to other applications with single sign-on.

Many of the customer's requirement of moving from Power BI to other web application with SSO.

Please let us know the issue in implementing this feasibility in Power BI Service(PowerBI.com)

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

v-viig — Mon, 28 May 2018 06:45:46 GMT

Username is actually personal information that CVs would share with third party services. Anyway this feature is on backlog and we'll consider it.

SSO is on backlog as well but there's no ETA so far.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

Sunkari — Wed, 30 May 2018 10:31:34 GMT

@v-viigThanks for the update.

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

sschuetz — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:49:02 GMT

Hi @v-viig

Are there any news?

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

FelipeCosta — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:36:32 GMT

Hello. Is there news on this?

Re: Custom Visual - get current user and report/page id

dm-p — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:08:46 GMT

Hi @FelipeCosta - nothing has changed in this regard since this thread was last updated. If you need an official response, it'll be better to email the custom visuals team directly (pbicvsupport@microsoft.com), as they don't currently have a representative checking the forums.

Regards,

Daniel