Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user

[dfraser2]

Right now, If I use PowerBI desktop to create a dataset, report and dashboard. I am not able to share it with a standard user. This effectively means that we have to either licence everyone as a pro (very expensive for 4k people), or not use the pro features at all (which isn't what we want). Pro users should be able to build and schedule the PowerBI, and then be able to share with any company user using AD security groups. Without these options the tool may not be a viable option...

[weiliang_lim]

Yes, it is ridiculous to charge user who only view the report. My company need to provide reports to over 10k customers and if we charge the customers for the license fee monthly just to see the report I think we will start loosing our customer. So please allow free user to at least view content of the pro user's. Thanks.

[wagnerap]

This needs to be reopened. If you have to use pro to schedule refreshes or hit azure, then we won't use power BI, despite a dedicated investment in azure. The fact that this is specifically shut out with powerBI embedded just makes it clearer that the pricing model and the technical reality don't match. Please don't force us to go find a different solution; Power BI lets us use analysts who speak excel for visualization instead of developers.

[saruky]

Promoting PowerBI in the organisation is almost impossible for me, since all the great dashboards I create can not be shared with almost anyone as my company doesn't want to pay the extra licenses (and I don't blame them). What's the point of creating something that no one can see??

[gary17]

this is a deal breaker for our company. Reporting and analyst team would need paid licenses to produce reports but the 1000's of viewers would need free access to the end results. If this isn't possible we won't even be looking at it.

[mtstewart17]

Need to reopen this. Increase the licensing cost for pro if necessary. Other BI options like tableau have free readers for non licensed users. Either that or figure out a way to make Web Publishing private so sharing can happen that way.

[Dave_Gugg]

This may be a deal breaker. We've been building out our models for the last few months, but now when I create a few dashboards to share I find I can't really share them with anyone. Creating the model is the hard part - it'll be easy for us to find a competitor such as Tableau or Qlick that will be cheaper and migrate the few dashboards we have to their software. Please reconsider this MS.

[gavinattard]

What a joke. PowerBI, you lost another client

[massouline1]

It's an essential point, especially for a company with hundred of users.

[NehaVageriya]

I have same concern here and I dont even remember when did I signed up for Pro. All my users are on free and unable to access. Also anyway I can turn back on free version from Pro? I did think no but still

[mqureshi007]

Currently we are havind the same issues - I have created few dashborad but not able to share unless the user has PRO license. We urgently need workaround on this