Add members to Roles for Object Level Security

[PompanoPete]

I used PBI Desktop to add 3 roles, A, B, C.  (No Table filter dax expression).  I then used Tabular Editor 2.19.0 to configure Object Level Security on various columns.  I switched back to Desktop and tested using "view as" and everything thing works great.  When I publish to the service it does not work.

I am having trouble associating AD groups to the roles.  In Tabular editor, I select the role and can see its properties > Members > ... which opens ModelRoleMember Collection Editor.  I can add new memeber, but I get the default name <New Memeber >.  The Memeber ID and Memeber Name are disabled and don't allow me to enter an AD Group.  I have looked online, and tried to configure in the service but no luck.

How do I add memebers to the Roles I created?

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi @PompanoPete 

Can you ensure that the AD groups are Security groups. The security groups should be able to be added in the Power BI Service?

[PompanoPete]

Sorry Guys,

My Power BI report with OLS security was deployed to a "Dev" workspace, but never got deployed to a "QA" workspace.  I assumed it had.  Because we had not deployed a PBI report with OLS implemented those option where not available.  Once I deployed a PBI report with OLS security to QA the options became available.

User error.