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Embed report with personal bookmarks enabled
Hi Dave149
Enabling personal bookmarks in embedded Power BI reports through app.powerbi.com can be a bit restrictive, especially when embedding via apps and not giving full workspace access. As of now, personal bookmarks are supported in Power BI service only when users have direct access to the report, either through the workspace or app in which the report is published.If you're embedding the report via URL (like reportEmbed?...), personal bookmarks won't work unless the report is accessed through a published app where the personal bookmark feature is explicitly enabled in the app settings. To ensure users can use personal bookmarks, you should publish the report within a Power BI App and make sure that the “Allow users to create personal bookmarks” option is turned on in the app settings before publishing.
Also, users must have at least Viewer access to the app and a Power BI Pro license (or the report must be in a Premium capacity). Unfortunately, embedding reports across multiple apps with isolated bookmark experiences per app isn’t natively supported, so aligning personal bookmarks with user-specific views may require some creative use of row-level security and user-specific filters as a workaround.
Hi Dave149,
Thank you for raising this. The super user’s response is correct mentioning personal bookmarks in Power BI only function when the report is accessed through a published app, not just via the reportEmbed URL.
To enable personal bookmarks, the report must be included in a Power BI App with the "Allow users to create personal bookmarks" option enabled in the app settings before publishing.
Users must have at least Viewer access to the app and either a Power BI Pro license or access through a Premium capacity workspace. It's important to note that while you can distribute the same report across multiple apps, bookmarks are tied to the report itself, so isolating bookmark experiences per app isn't supported.
As a workaround, you might consider using row-level security or creating separate versions of the report for different apps to simulate isolated views.
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