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PBI Embedded App Owns Data - Export Data from visual to Excel fails with 403 Forbidden error
Hi, My team is building a web app with embedded Power BI reports using the app-owns-data method with service principal authentication. One key feature for our users is the ability export data...
Hi Anonymous / Anonymous ,
This is because you are trying to call some Reports/Dashboards that are in My Workspace using the SPN autentication. Currently this is the known limiation for SPN
You have to use Master account approach in this kind of situation.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I forgot about this one 🙂
First, the reports in question were not in My Workspace, but this is good advice for anyone else who stumbles across this thread.
Second, the Excel export functionality has been working as expected with SP auth for a while now. I think the issue fixed iteself last May when SP auth went to GA status. Can't remember specifics now.
Thanks again,
Craig