Doubts about Power Bi Capacity

[tenenwurcel]

Hello everyonye,

I have created a application to share my reports with the customers of my company (whom doesn't have a Power BI account).

And even when my Power BI Embedded capacity is paused, they can still access and visualize it.

I have a Power BI Pro account. Is it supose to work like that?

I also have a second doubt.

Is it possible to start and stop the capacity programmatically?

Thank you very much,

Henrique. 

[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

---

@tenenwurcel wrote:

Hello everyonye,

I have created a application to share my reports with the customers of my company (whom doesn't have a Power BI account).

And even when my Power BI Embedded capacity is paused, they can still access and visualize it.

I have a Power BI Pro account. Is it supose to work like that?

I also have a second doubt.

Is it possible to start and stop the capacity programmatically?

Thank you very much,

Henrique. 

---

@tenenwurcel

1. At this moment, it is suposed to work for a limited period and then you'll keep failing calling the API GenerateToken.
2. The product team is working on the capacity APIs, so the answer is No at this moment.

[Anonymous]

Under a separate thread, I have documented how we cannot assign a workspace to an Azure PowerBI resource (whether it is paused or running). It generates an error that is entirely unhelpful.

I'd like to make a pitch to move some of our home-grown dashboards to PowerBI, but it all seems rather fragile at the moment. We can't afford the big $$ investment that big corporations can to support the occassional user that wants to explore a dashboard. An A1 instance would be fine if we can programtically start and stop it and it doesn't help that we can't take an existing workspace and associate it with the Azure instance.