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[sfarooq3]

Is there a way to selectively give permission to view certain tabs to certain people in Power BI service? For example, I have a dashboard with six tabs. I want some individuals in my organization to view just the first 2 tabs and others to view all of them. Is there a way to do this?

[anand16]

Hi @sfarooq3 ,

This is easily possible using combination of RLS, Hidding all pages except a landing page which should be visible to all. Landing page should have link to other pages (you can use dropdown in the form of buttons) and rest of pages should have BACK button. Hope this helps, else you can contact me at info@cranialytics.com

[sfarooq3]

Thank you for your responses. I am going to go ahead with creating different apps tailered for different groups. Hopefully, Power BI allows page-level security in a near future update. 

[GilbertQ]

Hi @sfarooq3 

Just remember that when you hide something it is not secure by default. Those things can always be unhidden or a way around it. You would have to always secure it using row level security or object level security where certain pages would be linked to certain tables where you could then restrict access.

[v-aatheeque]

Hi @sfarooq3 

Just following up on your query about restricting access to specific tabs in your Power BI report. As mentioned earlier by @GilbertQ @wc123 , Power BI doesn’t currently allow hiding tabs for certain users directly, but the workarounds include using RLS/Object Level Security or publishing separate Power BI Apps with tailored permissions.

Could you let us know if you had a chance to try any of these approaches, and if they worked for your scenario? Or are you still running into challenges with this setup?

[v-aatheeque · Accepted solution]

Hi @sfarooq3 ,

Just following up on your question about restricting access to specific tabs in a Power BI report. As noted earlier by @GilbertQ @wc123 , Power BI doesn’t natively support hiding tabs per user, but possible workarounds include using RLS/Object Level Security or publishing separate Power BI Apps with tailored permissions.

Have you had a chance to try any of these approaches? Did they address your scenario, or are you still facing challenges with the setup? 

[wc123]

Hi there,

Unfortunalty there is no way to simply hide certain tabs from certain people (they really should implement this). There are however a few work arounds you can try. One being RLS (this will be a bit tricky for what you want to accomplish. Two being Power BI Apps where you can publish to a powerbi App then create different app version and controll access to each app via permissions.