Managing Access at a Dataset Level, App not Discoverable

Hi, Anonymous 

As is said in official document, Power BI introduced Build permission in June 2019 as a complement to the existing permissions, Read and Reshare. All users who already had Read permission for datasets via app permissions, sharing, or workspace access at that time also got Build permission for those same datasets. They got Build permission automatically because Read permission already granted them the right to build new content on top of the dataset, by using Analyze in Excel or Export.

If you check the option to 'Allow users to conncet to the app's underlying datasets' when publishing an app, you are giving app users Build permission on those datasets. When you clear this option, new users you add to the app don't get Build permission. However, for existing app users, permissions on the underlying datasets don't change. You can remove Build permission manually from app users who should no longer have it. Please check your steps when publish the app.

For further information, you may refer to the following links.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-create-distribute-apps#allow-users-to-connect-to-datasets

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-datasets-build-permissions

Best Regards

Allan

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