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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Locked Visuals

Is there a way to lock visuals so that users cannot export the data into a spreadsheet? We are okay with them screenshoting the visuals to print but we don't want the underlying data to be exportable...
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    collinq
    5 years ago

    HI Anonymous ,

     

    In the Power BI Desktop file, in File - Options & Settings - Options - Current File, Report Settings You can set the Export Data option to "Don't allow end users to export any data from the service or report server".  You can also just summarized or just underlying instead.  On the Service itself, in the admin screen you can also set this where users can't download data.

    It might be possible in a third party visual itself to restrict that for THAT visual only - but I am not aware of any visuals/tiles that can be set separately from the other visuals in regards to downloads.

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collinq
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5 years ago

HI Anonymous ,

 

In the Power BI Desktop file, in File - Options & Settings - Options - Current File, Report Settings You can set the Export Data option to "Don't allow end users to export any data from the service or report server".  You can also just summarized or just underlying instead.  On the Service itself, in the admin screen you can also set this where users can't download data.

It might be possible in a third party visual itself to restrict that for THAT visual only - but I am not aware of any visuals/tiles that can be set separately from the other visuals in regards to downloads.