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Anonymous
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Power BI Row Level Security Help

I need some help with some Row Level Security DAX formulas in Power BI.

 

I have a list of Customers below and a filter selection.  Some users can see all the data, and some users can only see part of the data. 

 

Let's say I'm Customer A.  Customer A can see everything on the Customer and Performance column, but the Root Cause and Sales fields need to be blank.

 

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Example of secuirty for selecting Customer A. Notice the blank rows.

 

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To do this I tried relating two tables then writing some DAX filtering expressions using Manage Roles.  However it seams the Manage Roles feature only let's you filter out data and I end up loosing all of the other values.

 

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Anonymous
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What I ended up doing was using a SWITCH function.  I created a new column for each role, then a Measure to Switch between the columns depending on the role.

 

Measure = SWITCH(SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Switch]),"A",MAX(Security[Root_Cause_A]),"B",MAX(Security[Root_Cause_B]),MAX(Security[Root Cause]))
 
Here is what the Switch table looks like.  I then assign role level secuirty to select a single row in the Switch table.
 
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Here is what the table looks like viewing as Customer B.  Notice how the Measure field is blank for all Customers except Customer B.
 
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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

As you know, it's "Row" level security.

 

You want to show blank in column value for different customers.

 

I think you can try to make it in DAX, something like:

 

measure = if(username() = "A", if(customer_name = username(),customer_name,blank()))

 

Aiolos Zhao

Anonymous
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What I ended up doing was using a SWITCH function.  I created a new column for each role, then a Measure to Switch between the columns depending on the role.

 

Measure = SWITCH(SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Switch]),"A",MAX(Security[Root_Cause_A]),"B",MAX(Security[Root_Cause_B]),MAX(Security[Root Cause]))
 
Here is what the Switch table looks like.  I then assign role level secuirty to select a single row in the Switch table.
 
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Here is what the table looks like viewing as Customer B.  Notice how the Measure field is blank for all Customers except Customer B.
 
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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , see if these can help

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/MBAS-Gallery/Microsoft-Power-BI-Unleash-row-level-security-patterns...
https://radacad.com/dynamic-row-level-security-with-organizational-hierarchy-power-bi

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