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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Managing Power BI subscriptions for Apps

Hello all,    the new feature that "Users that have been assigned the admin role in a workspace can now view all subscriptions" is great, but it does not cover all our requirements since we mostly ...
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Xaraja
Helper III
4 years ago

Apps have subscriptions when they are actually a dashboard. Some of ours are that way. The users go to apps and then click on the app and what they see is a dashboard. They are then able to subscribe like they could subscribe to a dashboard, but the subscription is not visible in the subscription page because they've technically subscribed to an app, apparently (at least that's how it appears in my tests). When the app is just a list of a reports, the subscribe button doesn't appear in the app. 

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AnonymousPerson
Advocate V
4 years ago

Apps contain reports and dashboards.

You can SUBSCRIBE to any report or dashboard in an app.

 

The way apps are treated in Power BI behind the scenes seems very obscure. They are part of the workspace they came from, but they're also not, because you still have to "UPDATE APP" to push changes to an existing report or dashboard.

 

All I know is if there is a way for workspace admins to see existing subscriptions for workspaces, then they need it for apps EVEN MORE!

 

Here's the related idea:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=38e000b1-6fc5-ec11-bea2-281878e63983