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Sharing Reports
Anonymous Erm - I would have proposed to publish the report to his own PBI account, create a PBI group, then either a) create content pack and import report into group or b) upload PowerBI file into group.
Did you exclude that on purpose or did I miss sth here? :o
// Was he referring to the desktop app only?
It is ridiculous how hard it is to share a report.
Apps are becoming a pain... it is crazy that a user who has access to the app cannot pin tiles to their OWN dashboard from the shared reports. I see no logical reason (even business-wise) why this recommendation from the board has not been adopted.
From the beginning of Power Bi I have shared dashboards with pinned tiles from each of the reports so that users can then navigate to the report. Ultimately, I did this only because it would end up with the end user having the reports populated down the left side menu of reports.
This however, now is not the case.
I have a main user who can no longer view reports and there has been a change in the service to where I can no longer share as I used to (probably because of the apps).
Apps are not the end all solution.
Please just let us share reports with users (they already have PowerBi licenses....).
To share, you and the receiving user now must have a Pro license for this to work. Alternatively, your organization can lease a premium node and share with any users, even ones with no Power BI.
Jon
To share, you and the receiving user now must have a Pro license for this to work. Alternatively, your organization can lease a premium node and share with any users, even ones with no Power BI.
Jon
Is there any way for a Pro BI License user to share reports/dashboards to Free BI users internally to the organization? Content would not be suitable for entire web sharing that I see is available.
If you have the right SQL Server License, you can publish Power BI content to Report Server. It requires a slightly different Power BI desktop version. Of course, now you're paying for a server and a SQL server license. Not sure if any CALs are needed.
While you can use a Power BI Web Part in SharePoint Online and maybe later in SharePoint Internal, they still need a Pro license to view it. Once you get more than 250 Pro licenses issued, you should seriously consider leasing a Premium Node. That lease also entitles you to an on-premise Report Server, so the license cost is covered.
Talk to your account rep.
Jon
