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Anonymous
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9 years ago
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Issue with Publishing PBIX File

I have saved a dashboard to my OneDrive for business and shared with two colleagues in my organisation; one has Power BI Pro and the other has the standard version.  Neither are able to open without ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Anonymous The Desktop will always just be a download from the OneDrive... In order to share you need to publish to the Service, and share the dashboard. The colleague that has a Pro license will see it, and the colleague that has a free license will not see it because he needs a license.

    The Service is for sharing, the Desktop is for creating reports. It will always just be a file.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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9 years ago

Anonymous The Desktop will always just be a download from the OneDrive... In order to share you need to publish to the Service, and share the dashboard. The colleague that has a Pro license will see it, and the colleague that has a free license will not see it because he needs a license.

The Service is for sharing, the Desktop is for creating reports. It will always just be a file.

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    dilumd
    Impactful Individual
    9 years ago

    Yes! You need a license for sharing and to view shared reports. 🙃🙃