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5 years ago

PBI Embedded for ISV's DataSet Refresh

Hi all,   We're an ISV with Multiple Customers on our Tenant with their own Workspace. We've setup a single Service Principal and run Embedded as App Owns Data.   We want to create in our UI, a ...
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5 years ago

Thanks Henry, but I need to refresh the underlying Dataset, and not just the Report. I can't see any way of doing this other than running the rest API which requires a system wide access token.

We don't use Direct Query, so simply refreshing the report won't refresh the underlying data.

I was trying to work out if the Embed Token can be used to run REST API's, but don't believe it can.

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    5 years ago

    Yes, but as we're using a Service Principal with multiple workspaces (for independent clients), if I give the UI the Access Token, technically users will be able to run API's for ANY Workspaces using the Access Token for the Service Principal (which we cannot do)