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CarlMeads
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10 years ago
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Does my data consumer need a PowerBI Pro license?

Hi, can I publish dashboards somewhere centrally for users to consume without them having the pro licence? What experience will someone have if they tried to access a dashboard that took content from a Group Workspce or locally hosted dataset and they DIDN'T have a Pro licence

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  • v-micsh-msft's avatar
    v-micsh-msft
    10 years ago

    Hi CarlMeads,

    As shared by Eno1978, a Dashboard in a group workspace should belong to the Power BI pro content, and a free user Account is not allowed to access such data source.

    The following is my first test result when sharing a dashboard in a group workspace:

    But after some time, when I click the shared link in Mail from the free Power BI account, the shared dashboard shows out without any error popping out.  I will keep monitor this behavior.

    Dashboard within a content pack is not available to share, neither the original  nor the copied version.

    There is no share option available at the top-right corner on the original Content Pack dashboard, and the following is the copy (sharing this using the group admin account):

     

     

    Regards

     

     

     

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  • Habib's avatar
    Habib
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    10 years ago

    Local hosted data sources needs gateway for data refresh and this will requrie Pro license. You can't share dashboard being refreshed from local servers to ones having free license.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    10 years ago

    CarlMeads The only "central" location that I am aware of where this would work is SQL 2016 SSRS. The current solution just stores PBIX files, but long term plans sound like there will be an in-browser experience from what I've read. There is nothing like this currently. You could look at Power BI embedded for external facing solutions, but all internal would require a user to have a license if Pro content is used.

     

    • CarlMeads's avatar
      CarlMeads
      Regular Visitor
      10 years ago

      thanks guys that clears up the refresh.

       

      How about if I manually refresh, the datasource is an excel spreadsheet but the dashboard is created from within a group workspace?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        10 years ago

        CarlMeads Group workspace is a Pro feature. My assumption is that your end users would need a Pro license since you are using this. (haven't tested this particular scenerio though)