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Sharing reports with external users
Hi all
I wanted to find out how it is possible to share a report with an external user. I had thought if both report writer and external user had Pro accounts (paying $10 a month) then the external user would be able to see reports? We have an external user testing this out with us and it seems like they only get the Q&A section and cannot even see the dashboard let alone the report.
Our preference is to share the report for them as we've spent a good amount of time building it. The dashboard are nice but just aren't good enough IMHO.
I've seen that the PowerBI premium option solves this but we only have a handful of external clients whilst we are trying to build up our clientele. This makes the premium option not worthwhile yet but we'd certainly like to get there. I have also seen the option to tie it in with SSRS but we don't have the enterprise edition of that
Has someone else found a good solution to this conundrum?
regards,
Mark
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Hi Anonymous
I think a good option to your conundrum is publish the reports to Web. It's not necessary the external user have a Power BI PRO account. But be careful, anyone can see the reports with only the created link.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-publish-to-web
Regards
I see. In this scenario, your company have to assign him a Pro subscription according to Microsoft good practice.
Here some documentation.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53106
Hi!
Anonymous,
PBI Embedded isn't good solution for you? The pricing begint from 1$ (for A1 node).
Best regs
Well for embedded you have to do some development work to bring reports/dashboard in your apps, if it is simple straight forward sharing, not thru APP then in my opinion, workspace and B2B is the way to go,
Thanks McCow - didn't know that - could be useful later.
The 'cost' is more around my level of technical skills as more a business analyst user and with our internal IT being tied up in many other projects. I'd love for this to be sophisticated by having embedded share point style or other web type reports but we don't have the resources to do that just yet. Being able to simply share a report with a client tides us over at least for now.
