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Anonymous
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10 years ago

Groups or not for enterprise solution?

We started creating groups (workspaces) for our enterprise BI solution. One group basically corresponds to one business process, so finance is one group and procurent another and so on.

 

But I just realized that groups are separate also for dashboards, so we can't create a dashboard with pinned visuals from reports that resides in different groups.

 

We have a scenario where for example sales should see a part of the finance reports. I had in mind that we would have a sales dashboard with some of the tiles coming from finanance.

 

Would it be smarter to have one group for the whole solution and work with content packs instead? But I have a feeling that it will be harder to manage given hundreds of users.

 

Or should we just publish the some of the finance reports to both groups (i.e. sales and finance)?

 

Thanks,

 

Best Regards

Martin

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  • ankitpatira's avatar
    ankitpatira
    Community Champion
    10 years ago

    Anonymous Do you same visuals and apperance of dashboards for those departments? If yes you can also consider Row Level Security. This will allow you to create standard report and dashboards and user's can see data based on their access level (in your case their department). To the published dataset you can create roles, add users to those roles and filter that dataset for that role to the specific department.

     

    For more information, check out Row Level Security on this blog post.

     

    http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/community_blog

     

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      Thanks @Ankipatira!

       

      Yes, we will use row level security. As we will mostly use live connection to SSAS tabular cubes we will mainly use the row level security on that level. That we would use for separating what certain countries will see in for example a finance report.

       

      However, this question is more cross processes, i.e. one report that would be available on both the sales and the finance dashboards, which right now are in different workspaces.

       

      /Martin

      • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
        v-qiuyu-msft
        Community Support
        10 years ago

        Hi Anonymous,

         

        In Power BI Services, we are able to share dashboards, reports, and datasets read-only with people outside our group. Please take a look at this article: Share a dashboard with colleagues and others.

         

        If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

         

        Best Regards,
        Qiuyun Yu