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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Sharing Power BI Report with non-Pro user

I have created a report in Power BI Desktop which I need to share with a team member who does not yet have a Power BI Pro or Premium license. When I share the .PBIX file with them over email or a sha...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    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. 

     

     

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6 years ago

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. 

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6 years ago

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?