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How to share a content pack with a group?
Advocate IIHi, this is possible but as far as I can see, it will share the dashboards for the members personal workspace, and they will have to click the invite link, etc. The pbi group will work as distribution list, not as the dashboard "container".
It won't add the dashboard automatically to the group datasets/dashboards. A possible scenario for this would the publisher/edit group/readonly. (as of today users on a group can do everything)
(tested on 29-7)
rquintino - Thanks. You say this is possible - how?
I have a Pro (trial) BI account, but do not have 365. I can create a group in Power BI, but I cannot see an email address for this group (see limited group management options menu in my screenshot above) - so as far as I can see, I have no way of sharing the content pack with the group.
- rquintino
Hi Olly, sorry the reply was specific for Andre in an office365 tenant scenario (still can't share for the group, only for users in the group)
Been testing on a not office 365 tenant, and seems to be like you prev said. I couldnt discover how to address the created pbi group in the share dialog, and you can only edit name/group members and leave group options (not anything from pbi o365 groups).
Don't know if choosing the Admin option (from the top left quick nav) and doing a domain admin takeover will enable some new things for these, but that requires some dns changes, and maybe that will require a full o365 tenant also (can't test it on this domain).
But note that you can immediately load the content pack onto the group workspace, and anyone logging in and choosing that group will see it immediately (the main scenario for groups, load your content pack in the group and everyone can use it).
Only issue is that they will have (at least for now) full permissions. does that help?
Side note: pbi apps seem not to be group compatible yet. (rather strange...)
- andre
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Ther is no way to Push content packs out to a group. Users either get an email link to accept Shared content or they go to Get Data->My Organization and consume it that way but they have to be in the right place (personal workspace or group) before they do it.
Do you have the option to share with the entire organization? At least then you could, theoretically at least, add the content pack in your group's work space via "Get data".
