I want to share a content pack with a group which I have created within Power BI. When I create the content pack, I can't see any way of sharing with a group, without having to enter each member's email address individually. Is there no way of selecting Power BI group(s) to share content packs with?

Replying to myself: It would appear I need Office 365 to manage a Power BI group. Is this right? I thought Power BI 2 was separate from 365... Do I really need 365 to enable the group functionality in Power BI?

meysun - thanks, but as I don't have 365, the only group menu options are Edit Group and Leave Group: This is disappointing, as I initially believed we would be able to access the full functionality of Power BI 2 without Office 365...

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.

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...)

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.

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meysun
Resolver IV
11 years ago
You should be able to specify the emailaddress for the group that you created. for example [email protected] in the 'Specific Groups' section of Create Content pack screen. You can find the email address for the group that you created from the group's detail page
- Olly
  Frequent Visitor
  11 years ago
  Thanks. I receive the following error message when I try to edit my group, though:
  
  Oops, something went wrong. Couldn't get group members Activity Id270e0747-5d9e-4560-a148-eb3b65c4a715 Request Id2706f2d9-f0a3-cda8-af83-3563939b0b61 Status Code400 TimeTue Jul 28 2015 20:40:35 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Version11.0.9167.449 Cluster URIhttps://wabi-north-europe-redirect.analysis.windows.net
  - Olly
    Frequent Visitor
    11 years ago
    Okay, I'm no longer receiving an error when I edit the group - but I don't see a group email address anywhere. Am I looking in the wrong place? If this is not in the Edit Group page, then where will I find it?
- rquintino
  Advocate II
  11 years ago
  Hi, 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)
  - Olly
    Frequent Visitor
    11 years ago
    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.

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