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doctornick0
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7 years ago
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Prevent Authentication Credentials from Saving

Hi, everybody,   I have a connection to Salesforce Objects that, for whatever reason, keeps saving my authentication settings.  I want the user to be prompted to use their Salesforce login whenever...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    doctornick0,

    In the case of using DirectQuery or connect live mode to connect to some data sources(SQL Server, SSAS), Power BI Desktop will prompt user to login with their own account each time a different user opens the PBIX file.

    However, for salesforce object data source, it is not possible to prevent authentication from saving as you describe. In your sceanrio, you can consider to configure Row Level Security in the PBIX file and share dashboard to users in Power BI Service.

    Regards,
    Lydia

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

doctornick0,

In the case of using DirectQuery or connect live mode to connect to some data sources(SQL Server, SSAS), Power BI Desktop will prompt user to login with their own account each time a different user opens the PBIX file.

However, for salesforce object data source, it is not possible to prevent authentication from saving as you describe. In your sceanrio, you can consider to configure Row Level Security in the PBIX file and share dashboard to users in Power BI Service.

Regards,
Lydia