Data Protection while Referencing

[Anonymous]

I created a report that has to be shared via the desktop application because our server is being serviced at this time. I don’t want anyone to be able to manipulate the visuals, so I hid the tables in the fields section. When I did this, however, it prevented users from being able to right click into any visual to view the data that supports that visual (using show data as a table). Is there any way to protect the data from being manipulated while allowing for the supporting data to be seen as a table?

[fhill · Accepted solution]

We have several users who want to open the PowerBI Desktop file instead of the web panels. Whenever we "archive" them on our network drive, we always right-click on the PBIX file and do so read-only.

Then you can click and click, and OPPPS, I dragged this table instead of clicking, and Oppps, I deleted this... everything they want, and just close and reopen the file (and CAN"T Save on it. with a single click...)

Forrest

[Anonymous]

This is a great alternative, thank you so much!

[amitchandak]

@Laurenrichard, no protection is available in the desktop file. It's for development.