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Bethany123
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Restrict Access to a page when working with thousands of changing users

Hi,

 

I have a report with various pages that a whole company has access to (thousends). However I have one page that I want to resrict access to (to just a handful of people). This is a differnt dataset but the requirement is that its still in the same report. 

 

Is there anyway of doing this without using RLS where I have to input all user emails (which constantly change with starters and leavers).

 

Thanks

Beth

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Anonymous
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Hi @Bethany123 ,

 

According to your description, it seems that you want page-level limit to access, right?

 

I'm afraid currently there's no feature in power bi, you can vote for this idea.

 

As a workaroud, it is suggeted to use following two solutions:

  1. Break the report into two set of reports: one with open access and another with “secure” pages. Share the report with the secure pages with the people who can access it or publish it to a separate workspace.
  2. Add a hidden page-level or report-level slicer that filters on a DAX measure. The DAX measure can check the user identity using the USERPRINCIPALNAME() function, so the slicer doesn’t return any values if the interactive user is not authorized. Granted, a better (and preferred) way to achieve this could be to apply RLS but RLS will restrict data to all visuals where as a slicer can filter only selected visuals.

 

Reference: Securing Power BI Report Pages

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Bethany123 ,

 

According to your description, it seems that you want page-level limit to access, right?

 

I'm afraid currently there's no feature in power bi, you can vote for this idea.

 

As a workaroud, it is suggeted to use following two solutions:

  1. Break the report into two set of reports: one with open access and another with “secure” pages. Share the report with the secure pages with the people who can access it or publish it to a separate workspace.
  2. Add a hidden page-level or report-level slicer that filters on a DAX measure. The DAX measure can check the user identity using the USERPRINCIPALNAME() function, so the slicer doesn’t return any values if the interactive user is not authorized. Granted, a better (and preferred) way to achieve this could be to apply RLS but RLS will restrict data to all visuals where as a slicer can filter only selected visuals.

 

Reference: Securing Power BI Report Pages

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

manikumar34
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@Bethany123 , 

 

Is that page should be aaccessed with Starters and Leavers basis??





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