Best,
We work with one workspace containing all datasets (the golden dataset principle, where all reports and datasets are seperated), and give users build-permissions on the datasets they need. They don't have access to our "dataset workspace".
Until recently (I'd say until a month or so ago) our users could download the pbix-files from reports based on a shared dataset. Our best practice up until now was to have the most recent pbix-file in the service, and whenever a change is needed, users could download their, or a colleague's, pbix-file and make their edits in Power BI Desktop. However, now they can't do this anymore, and I noticed the "Limitations when downloading a .pbix from a report" has been altered recently, and now reads:
- You can download a file in either Reading view or Editing view. You must be at least a Contributor to the workspace that the report is in. If the report is based on a dataset in another workspace, you need to be at least a Contributor to that workspace as well.
Was this change announced somewhere? I couldn't find any information on this, but am wondering why this was changed. It seems to make the golden dataset principle a lot less interesting all of a sudden.
What are your best practices for having multiple users work on the same report? How do your users save and control their pbix files? I feel like it shouldn't be end users' responsibility to have some sort of source control of their pbix-files - which is why we had the system using the service set up.
Would love to hear how you deal with this.
Thanks,
Best,
Eva
