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Sharing Power BI Report with non-Pro user
We got resolution on this issue finally by having the user open Power BI Desktop seperately (with a new report), and then open the file through the File menu (File > Open). Glad to have a solution, but it would be great to see this inconsistency resolved, by allowing users to open the .pbix file directly.
Community SupportHi Anonymous ,
>>The datasources are an SQL database which both of us have read/write privileges for, and a single excel table in a shared network drive.
From your words, "a single excel table in a shared network drive" is referred that the excel table is saved in OneDrive for Business? How about try to delete this data source about the excel table, and try it again?
Best Regards,
Amy
Community Support Team _ Amy
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
I have tried to remove the excel file with the same issue. Is this a feature of the newest release of PowerBI to make files incompatible? The file could not be opened with the April version fo Desktop, (error saying the user needed to update) but with the new version there is this issue.
I should also say that previously we shared files as a team with Direct Queries to this same SQL server. This is what leads me to believe it is an issue with the latest release. I have not been able to identify anything in the documentation, so I came here. Any insights?