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App Workspaces

lferdinand — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:53:18 GMT

We are considering PowerBI Embedded to host 1 or more visualization pages on a per customer/tenant basis in a cloud-based app.

The desired model would be to create an app workspace per tenant. This would have to be done programmatically. Is this possible? If not, and we were forced to go with a shared App workspace per visualization page, then what would be some guidelines for how many tenants could be hosted in a single workspace?

Can App workspaces be managed in a CICD pipeline?

We would like for there to be minimal involvement of DevOps in needing to allocate a new App workspace when one "fills up".

Thanks for any assistance

Re: App Workspaces

Eric_Zhang — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:33:52 GMT

@lferdinand wrote:

We are considering PowerBI Embedded to host 1 or more visualization pages on a per customer/tenant basis in a cloud-based app.

The desired model would be to create an app workspace per tenant. This would have to be done programmatically. Is this possible? If not, and we were forced to go with a shared App workspace per visualization page, then what would be some guidelines for how many tenants could be hosted in a single workspace?

Can App workspaces be managed in a CICD pipeline?

We would like for there to be minimal involvement of DevOps in needing to allocate a new App workspace when one "fills up".

Thanks for any assistance

@lferdinand

Power BI Embedded is for Embedding for your customers, the embedded objects(dashboards, reports, tiles) viewers don't have to be Power BI users, so no cencern about customer/tenant.

It is surely possible to create a workspace programmatically in a specific tenant, see Add group. Tenants are isolated, you can't add members from another tenant for a workspace.

Re: App Workspaces

ChrisWilliams — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 03:16:32 GMT

This is what I do in my app. I use the REST api to create a new workspace for a new customer during a provisioning task. Each tenant has their own report, their own data source, etc in their own workspace. My provisioning task copies up a pbix file and then customizes the sql connection resource and also the credentials.

i’ll locate the url later and add it to this thread, but search for power bi rest api and c# SDK and it will have all you need.

Re: App Workspaces

ChrisWilliams — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 03:43:09 GMT

Power BI REST API: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn877544.aspx

Power BI C# SDK: https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp

Re: App Workspaces

rallen — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:40:32 GMT

Can you please elaborate or provide a link to more clearly explain what you mean by provisioning task?

Thanks!