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External Sharing
As I tested, I shared a dashboard within a group to an external user. He can see the shared dashboard properly via email link.
In your scenario, you can just directly share your dashboard or content pack to external user email account.
Only your direct recipients can see the shared dashboard, any user sign up with other email account can't access this shared dashboard even they have the link. This should be the reason why you share a dashboard to a external user, but you can't access it via email link by yourself.
Another important thing is the liscensing requirement for sharing. If your dashboard contains Pro content, your recipients should also need Pro liscense to view the data. For more details, see: Share a dashboard with colleagues and others.
Regards,
Anonymous
But this would mean that the external users can only view the dashboard in via a link and not in their own navigation pane, right?
We would like them to have the dashboards and reports in their own PBI environment as well, so they can use them on their windows, android or iOS applications.
Basvanbaar Correct.
To your other needs. I don't have any great answer. There may be a path here to create a Template Content Pack -- I can't say I'm very familiar as the documentation is new, and I don't recall an announcement (I'm assuming its is coming). This looks like you would need to possibly use Azure SQL DB, but I'll leave it to you to explore. This appears to allow end users access to models that you build.
Outside of this method, there isn't really a great answer to having your users have the abilities you want without adding them into your environment, and thus having to pay those license fees...
Other than that, my other post which uses Power BI Embedded, but that would only allow them to see reports in an application.