Passing an external email/username as a parameter URL within a Web App to Power BI Embedded

[PMFlorenzano]

Hello,

Has anyone ever passed an external username/email within the URL to a Power BI Embedded report?

We will have users from outside of the company accessing data through a web app and we do have row level security setup within the semantic model already but was thinking if I need to create a parameter that will pass from the URL string to the Power BI Embedded report.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @PMFlorenzano 

For security reasons, it is not standard practice to pass external usernames or emails directly in the url to power bi embedded reports.

The recommended approach is to use RLS in the Power BI model to manage data access.

This way, when an external user authenticates to view an embedded report, RLS rules are applied based on their identity, which is more secure.

In the meantime, I'm here to provide a way to embed Power BI reports for your customers:

Embed content in your Power BI embedded analytics application - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Regards,

Nono Chen

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