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PBIfanatic
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4 years ago
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Difference between share and giving workspace access

Hi,   Is it possible to share a report with a user in Power BI service in a workspace( in premium capacity) without adding the user to a role in a workpace? When I go into the report there is an o...
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  • vojtechsima's avatar
    vojtechsima
    4 years ago

    Hi, PBIfanatic ,
    The difference will be that Sharing will grant access only to the specific report.
    Whereas granting Viewer access to that person, allows him to see every report published in the workspace.

     
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vojtechsima
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4 years ago

Hi, PBIfanatic ,
The difference will be that Sharing will grant access only to the specific report.
Whereas granting Viewer access to that person, allows him to see every report published in the workspace.

 
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    PBIfanatic
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    4 years ago

    Thanks vojtechsima 

     

    if this report is build using a dataset, then does the share option automatically gives read access to the dataset as well?

    If the user wants to edit the report, then the user will need a contributor role ??

     

    thanks.

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      vojtechsima
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      4 years ago

      Hi, PBIfanatic 
      No, it should not.

       

      And the second question, yes, he needs the workspace role Contributor to be able to edit the report.