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Microsoft EmployeeFixes to Power BI Pro License Required Dialogs
Super UserWhat about using the Content Packs and letting people get access to the data that way?
Advocate IVI dont think Content Packs solves the basic issue of being able to update a report on behalf of an absent colleague, unless I'm missing something.
We used a PowerBI Group Workspace as a sort of "shared folder" in PowerBI Online where I e.g. could upload my .pbix report and share it to other collegaues within our organisation by pinning the Live Tiles to a dashboard.
But let's say I was ill or on vacation and my colleague needed to update this report on my behalf. He could then simply open the .pbix file on our local corporate drive, click Refresh in PowerBI Desktop and then publish it again to our Group Workspace overwriting the existing data online. The link would remain the same and no one would notice.
If I had instead published it to My Personal Workspace my colleague would need to open the local .pbix file, publish it to his Personal Workspace instead. Then create a new Dashboard on his Personal Workspace. Send out a new link to the hundreds or perhaps thousands of read-only end-users, while also informing the users to use this new link untill I get back where they then again should use the old link.
I would love to know if anyone knows a simpler solution to the use-case above. We've had our eye on Scheduled Refresh as well - but this is also a Pro-feature which would then require the hundreds of end-users to get a Pro-license...
worldundermineAdvocate I
Same exact thing here. We've decided - obviously - to move off the MS platform. Too bad, since it was working great until this change.
mimAdvocate V
Mardin maybe just share your password with your colleague when you are in vacation ?
or just don't use the web at all, and just distribute pbix files.
- Mardin
mim Sharing my password is not a viable option since it's simply not allowed. I'm in a company with 6.000+ employees and they have a very strict IT policy.
Distributing the .PBIX files defeats the purpose of this tool and it would also be a hasle to distribute a new .PBIX file to 1-200 different end-users each month.
It should simply be possible for everyone to READ the online reports and only have the developers/admins require the Pro-license, like many many others have stated in here.
Why is it free to read/view-only the .PBIX files via the free Desktop client but not free to read/view-only online?
- mim
Mardin Microsoft is not obliged to do anything, it is the market that decide and unfortunately the BI enterprise offering is still very expensive.
don't get me wrong I understand your frustration, but microsoft model from day one was clear, everyone need to have a subscription to do any meaningful work in enterprise, I know it does not make sense but what's the alternative. ( Qlik Server and Tableau Server required named user too)
another option is to wait for SSRS on premise, but it is not clear what will be the license model.
SSAS with Excel as a front end is an option too.
so unless the competitors come up with a better pricing model, Microsoft will not change anything.