Create a view scenario where you can impersonate a viewer of a dashboard/report so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees.

[jase1]

Create a view scenario where we can impersonate a named user so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees when they view a dashboard or report.

[nishalit]

We are planning to do this for data that is stored in the cloud. What models were you particularly interested in?

[jmccooey]

We currently need a second machine to be logged in as a market specific user to test reports. We build very general reports and let role level security built into our data model a lot of filtering but have no good way to view/test reports as a user.

[dbadmin]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by models - but what if data isn't stored in the cloud?

[rory_neary1]

Hi You can create a role in the pbix and then once in power bi navigate to the role within the dataset/security and click 'test as role'. It's not perfect but it can be useful.

[Janet_Garcia]

I need impersonation at an individual user level. We have security tied to PRINCIPALUSERNAME() and need to ensure each person can only see their own data. We are using the Power BI Service to publish our reports and datasets. There is the ability to impersonate a named user on the reports that are part of a dataset (with very obscure steps to get there). But any reports that are linked to another dataset (Using PowerBI Dataset as the data source) don't have this option. Just to test my security, I have to risk exposure of data by relying on a user who *should* be limited, but who might not be. Not acceptable.

[jase1]

This has been "Planned" for almost six years now according to this post. Is there any update on this?

[Scott_Peterson]

I have users with the same roles and permissions where one person can see a workspace and another cannot see the workspace. I need to be able to log in as the specific user to be able to troubleshoot to see if it is a license issue, a role issue, a permission issue, or a RLS issue, as far as I know, this is not currently possible.