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Anonymous
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7 years ago

User role considering different workspaces.

Hello,

 

I am trying to understand the following sentence from the link below:

 

"If an individual is in several user groups, they get the highest level of permission provided by the roles they are assigned."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-new-workspaces#roles-in-the-new-workspaces

 

Does this mean that regargless of a role, a user has in a workspace, the same user can have higher role depending on who one is in other workspaces? If it so, is there a way of seeing the highest role such user is assigned?

 

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Also, if a user was granted a Member role in old workspaces, will one have at least a Member role in new workspaces, despite the fact that the one was granted a Viewer role?

    • v-diye-msft's avatar
      v-diye-msft
      Community Support
      7 years ago

      Hi Anonymous ，

       

      The roles in one workspace won't relates to the role in another workspace. the authority won't interconnected between workspaces.  the sentence means if you are in the several user groups, such as security groups, Office 365 groups, and distribution lists. but security groups was set as viewer in the new workspace, (you must know new workspace can assign the role to whole group not only individual)

      Office 365 groups set as contributor, distribution lists set as member, then you'll get the highest permission of member. 

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        7 years ago

        Is there a way of finding out what the highest role that will be assigned to a user? As sometimes it is quite difficult to know all the groups the one belongs to. Therefore, there is a chance that undeliberately this person can get a higher access rights.