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Opening Report in Desktop
Correct. Without Edit (or Admin) permission, you can only view in Power BI Service.
You'll need Edit permission in a Workspace to export a PBIX for a report. Either you have to be an Admin in the Workspace, or the Workspace configured to all Members to edit.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-manage-app-workspace-in-power-bi-and-office-365
Thanks jeffshieldsdev So does that mean that I am not able to open and view a shared report using Desktop? Are you only able to view shared reports in Service?
Correct. Without Edit (or Admin) permission, you can only view in Power BI Service.
This doesn't answer the question in my opinion - how do we open a published report in Power BI desktop (yes, we have edit and admin access) without having to download the file? We can connect to the dataset, why can't we connect to the report instead of downloading it? Is there no concept of connecting to a published report?
I'd like this ability as well. I'm using a deployment pipeline. I'd like to be able to open a PBIX from the test environment, edit it in Power BI desktop, and save it back to test. I don't want to have to maintain a copy somewhere else and then publish it to test. Maybe this isn't best practice?
