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noamo48
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8 years ago

Trying to embed report in AppOwnsData sample report, getting 403 Forbidden error

I am trying to run the sample AppOwnsData project (https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-Developer-Samples/tree/master/App%20Owns%20Data) and I have followed the directions to a tee. I created a nativ...
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noamo48
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8 years ago

Well I ended up fixing it. Super unintuitive and clumsy that it's set up this way....but I had to add my workspace group's email address as a member in the workspace group. So for example my workspace group was named "PowerBIWorkspace" and I had to add "[email protected]" as a member in the workspace.

 

Whoever coded and documented Power BI did a HORRIBLE job....

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    Eric_Zhang
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago
    noamo48 wrote:

    Well I ended up fixing it. Super unintuitive and clumsy that it's set up this way....but I had to add my workspace group's email address as a member in the workspace group. So for example my workspace group was named "PowerBIWorkspace" and I had to add "[email protected]" as a member in the workspace.

     

    Whoever coded and documented Power BI did a HORRIBLE job....

    noamo48

    Thanks for your sharing. So you hardcoded the "[email protected]" as the account credential in the App owns data? If so, it doesn't have to be the group account, any admin member's account in that group can work.