Power BI embedded with user data

[hhomann]

Hi,

I have a very basic question about Power BI - I am googling since hours but I do not get a clear solution, sorry. We are working on creating a Business Intelligence Solution for eCommerce sellers. Since I personally love Power BI, we are thinking about using Power BI embedded for the product we are going to publish. However, we are not sure if the following scenario is doable with Power BI

- we create dashboards and reports in Power BI desktop and embed these into our webapp.

- when users log in, they see and can work with the dashboards and reports we created, but based on THEIR data

The data structure is the same and the connection settings to the datasets are of course saved in our webapp, but is it actually possible to let Power BI connect to different data sets based on which user is currently logged in?

Thanks for your help!

Hendirk

[Eric_Zhang]

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@hhomann wrote:

Hi,

I have a very basic question about Power BI - I am googling since hours but I do not get a clear solution, sorry. We are working on creating a Business Intelligence Solution for eCommerce sellers. Since I personally love Power BI, we are thinking about using Power BI embedded for the product we are going to publish. However, we are not sure if the following scenario is doable with Power BI

- we create dashboards and reports in Power BI desktop and embed these into our webapp.

- when users log in, they see and can work with the dashboards and reports we created, but based on THEIR data

The data structure is the same and the connection settings to the datasets are of course saved in our webapp, but is it actually possible to let Power BI connect to different data sets based on which user is currently logged in?

Thanks for your help!

Hendirk

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If you could gathering the data into one dataset, you can consider Row level security with Power BI Embedded.

• Row level security (RLS) can be used to restrict user access to particular data within a report or dataset, allowing for multiple different users to use the same report while all seeing different data. Power BI Embedded now supports datasets configured with RLS

[ankitpatira · Accepted solution]

@hhomann You have not reached dead end as Power BI Embedded has additional APIs to change the server and database that your dataset is pointing to and set a service account credential that the dataset will use to connect to your database. See this link and image below. So you can publish pbix file to your azure workspace and using this APIs programatically change dataset connection string.

[hhomann]

@ankitpatira thanks a lot for that link! I am checking it with my developer. Is this actually usable with a PHP based framework or only with asp.net?

[Eric_Zhang]

@hhomann

It is not language specific, as long as Calling Rest API is supported.