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SeSPowerBi
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Power BI REST API Multiple Usernames In Effective Identity, RLS

Hello all,

 

I am working on a web app that uses the Power BI REST API to generate an embed token with RLS. Our application follows the 'App owns data' embed scenario. With the following effective identity I want to generate an embed token for specific reports, datasets and target workspaces.

 

There are 3 scenarios I need to handle:

1) to be able to provide project name, which will later filter the data for that project; known as the “ProjectName”

2) to be able to provide the user’s email from the AAD that was authorized, which will later filter the visible data that the user can view; known as the “User”

3) to be able to provide both the project name, as well as the user’s principal email to later filter that project for report data on the users perspective; so “ProjectName” & “User”

 

We can not tie the User to ProjectName. These are independent, and we need to handle them separately.

There is a relationship between them both, but in our scenario need report to handle them separately for filter.

 

I am able to handle both 1 & 2 separately, but I have yet to figure out how scenario 3 would be applied in the effective identity.

 

The request body looks to only be able to handle one username in the object as the unique identifier.

Is there a way to use 2 unique identifiers to filter the datasets and reports for the embedding?

 

Let ProjectName= “Green”, User= “myname@gmail.com”, where the role(s) that would use these two values to filter the dataset would be called “ProjectNameAndUser”.

 

{

  "accessLevel": "View",

  "identities": [

    {

      "username": “Green”, “myname@gmail.com

      "roles": [

        "ProjectNameAndUser",

      ],

      "datasets": [

        "abcdefghijk"

      ]

    }

  ]

}

 

Thank you for the help!

@PowerBI @rls

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Anonymous
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Hi @SeSPowerBi ,

You can refer the content in the following links to get it:

Applying user and role to an embed token

Power BI Embedded: Convention-based dynamic Row-level Security

Best Regards

Thank you! That second link is very useful.

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