Fetch Login information of the User

[v-sadadi]

Hi Team,

Can we fetch the Login information of the User who logged in Power BI site and restrict the data shown in the Dashboard based on Login.

I have a scenario where I have a dashboard showing information of Users and this dashboard is shared across a group of people as a content pack/just shared. I want to restrict the data shown in the Dashboard/report is particular to the User who logged in to Power BI Site.

Any help on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Satya

[ashishrj]

@v-sadadi 1. No, you cannot fetch the login information for the user logged in to Power BI site.

2. This funtionality can be achieved in Power BI SSAS tabular modeling using row level security. 

[dannio]

Hello, is it still the case that you can't fetch a username inside of PowerBI Server?  thanks

[v-sadadi · Accepted solution]

Hi ashishrj,

I am able to do it in Power BI SSAS Tabular Model by defining Roles. I want the same functionality in Power BI Desktop.

I have a SSAS Tabular Model with a Role restricting the data by USERNAME() Funtion. Now I have imported this SSAS Tabular Model in Power BI Desktop and Published it on Power BI Site. But I did not find data restrictions with Role I defined in the Tabular Model. I am seeing all the users information.

When I open the Dataset/Report/Dashboard in Power BI Site with my login, the Data should get restricted to my UserId based on the role I defined in the Tabular model. The data should change according to the User who logged in to the Power BI Site.

Can we restrict User data on Power BI Site based on the Role?

Any help on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Satya

[Bjoern]

Use the direct connector to the AS Tabular. As far as I know, there is no row-level security in the PBI-File. 

You could also use Azure Sequel DB or SQL Server 2016 on-prem. Row-level security should also work there.

[smishra99acres]

How can we achieve this?