Owner/Contact Field on reports

Hi John_DeKock, 

you can get the information of the owner via the Power BI API. See the documentation here:

Admin - Reports GetReportUsersAsAdmin - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

The field "reportUserAccessRight" should be the one where you take the "Owner".

Note: You need Admin API access to retrieve contact info for all reports across the tenant.

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Hi, 

Did you mean whether the 'Contact' can be accessed via DAX in Power BI Visuals or report? If this is what you meant, the 'Contact' field shown in the report settings is service-level metadata used for governance only. It is not part of the dataset and cannot be accessed on report. If you need to display an owner/contact, i'd suggest storing it in a table (e.g., SharePoint or Excel) and model it explicitly.

Hi John_DeKock and durham4 ,

Thank you for the follow up and for sharing your findings.

To clarify, the Reports REST API, including Get Reports in Group, does not return the Contact field configured in the Service. That property is not currently exposed through Reports APIs, Admin APIs, or Scanner APIs.

If the requirement is specifically to identify who actually created or published a report, the supported approach today is to review the Power BI Activity Log and check the relevant report creation or publish events.

There is no dedicated REST API property that directly returns the original publisher or the Contact value.

Please reach out for further assistance.
Thank you.