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PeterPetkov
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Data sources shared between workspaces?

Hi,

 

I'm researching how to integrate power bi in my company's products. So far, the selected approach is using power bi embedded, service principal, azure capacity, and multy-tenancy using workspace-based isolation. 

 

The report i'm using for tests, have a web api data source with basic authentication. The problem i've noticed is that when i upload the report to two workspaces, instead of getting separate data sources, they points to single data source in the default gataway.

 

workspace1 -> test report -> dataset1 -> datasource 1

workspace2 -> test report -> dataset2 -> datasource 1

 

As result i can't set the corresponding datasource credentials for each workspace.

 

Technical details:

I'm using C# Microsoft.PowerBI.Api, single user with admin access to both workspaces. 

Reports are uploaded through Imports.PostImportWithFileAsync(), then i use Gateways.UpdateDatasourceAsync() to update credentials

 

I'm i missing a setting somewhere, or i'm on a wrong path at all?

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petrVolfMBI
Regular Visitor

Hi @PeterPetkov,

 

do you have any progress on this? I am currently facing the same issue.

Yes.
After report is uploaded, i'm creating a new datasource using
UpdateDatasourceConnectionRequest and UpdateDatasourcesRequest classes and calling

client.Datasets.UpdateDatasourcesInGroupAsync(workspaceId, datasetId, updateDatasourceRequest);

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