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eliebe-5
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Difference in Calculated table and RLS

I'm having some trouble with creating an RLS Role for managing which department a user may view employees from.

 

I have a table of departments built like paths, IE:

Dep1/

Dep1/Site1

Dep1/Site1/Team1

Dep1/Site1/Team2

Dep1/Site2

Dep1/Site2/Team3

Dep1/Site2/Team4

 

Each row has a manager, which matches ids in my usertable. For a manager to be able to access departments below them I create a calculated column in the departments table so that Column = Manager & ParentManager & GrandParentManager.

 

So my role filter is: (OrganizationalEntity is department and Solution is my aggregated column)

VAR USERID =
CALCULATE(
 FIRSTNONBLANK( SystemUser[systemuserid], 1),
 FILTER( ALL( SystemUser ), SystemUser[Domain Name] = USERPRINCIPALNAME()
 )
)

RETURN
IF(
IFERROR(SEARCH(USERID, OrganizationalEntity[Solution]), -1) > -1,
TRUE,
FALSE
)

But this simply leaves me with all departments with a nonblank "Solution" column.

 

If I instead create a calculated table, use the same definition for USERID but swap userprincipalname() for my email, like this:

TestTable = 

VAR USERID =
CALCULATE(
 FIRSTNONBLANK( SystemUser[systemuserid]; 1);
 FILTER( ALL( SystemUser ); SystemUser[Domain Name] = "MYEMAIL@DOMAIN.COM"
 )
)

RETURN
    CALCULATETABLE(
        OrganizationalEntity;
        FILTER(
            OrganizationalEntity;
            IF(
            IFERROR(SEARCH(USERID; OrganizationalEntity[Solution]); -1) > -1;
            TRUE;
            FALSE
            )
        )
    )

This generates a table with expected results.

Is this a bug? Or am I just missing something?

 

EDIT: I want to add that I have tried simply OrganizationalEntity[Manager] = USERID, and that works as expected in RLS, so USERID seems to be correct.

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