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Capitalmale
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4 years ago
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Difference between Read vs Viewer Permission in Power bi

A saw a thread marked as solved about the "Difference between Read permissions and Viewer Permission is Power bi". However, the response did not match with my experience.   I am an administrator of...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi Capitalmale ,

    For Viewer, it’s a workspace role, when you add a person to the workspace access with Viewer role, he can access this workspace and then only view and interact with all content in this workspace, such as reports.

    For more details, you can read related document: Roles in the new workspaces in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs , Give users access to the new workspaces - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

     

    For Read permission, it’s used for sharing specific reports , user can only view and interact the shared report, cannot access the corresponding workspace if doesn’t have workspace role.

     

    Best regards,
    Community Support Team_ Binbin Yu
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edhans
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4 years ago

A Viewer is a role, and that viewer has read permissions.

The difference is a Contributor is also a role, and has read/write permissions to their content but read permissions to other content.

 

So when you share a report with someone, you are giving them a level of permissions, read, read/write, etc. Not a role. 

Make sense?