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homboy27
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24 days ago
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Power BI Workspace Server Request Approvals

I have a few dashboards in PowerBI workspace server. I was wondering is there a way somehow to see all pending requests for all the dashboards at once rather than going into each report and checking ...
  • DataTako's avatar
    20 days ago

    Hi,

    Short answer: no, the Power BI service doesn't give you one screen with all pending access requests across reports. Requests are tied to each individual item, so "Manage permissions" is per report and there's no aggregated pending-requests view in the portal.

     

    The realistic fix is to stop the per-report requests from happening in the first place:

    Publish the reports as a Power BI App and give people access to the app audience instead of to each report. Then there's one access point to manage rather than one per report.

     

    Better still, grant access through a security group (or M365 group) rather than to individuals. People get added to the group, the group has access, and you're not approving one-off requests at all. When someone new needs in, you add them to the group in one place.

     

    If you specifically want to pull the requests programmatically, the admin REST API is the only route, but honestly that's more work than just consolidating access so the requests stop landing individually.

     

    So there's no dashboard for it by design. Routing access through an app or a group is what most people switch to once the per-report approvals get annoying.

     

    If this answers your question, please mark it as the solution so others with the same question find it faster.

     

    Paco

    Power BI reports for large viewer groups