Forum Discussion
Power BI 'Act As functionality'
Hi DebbieE
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.Power BI does not have an equivalent to OBIEE’s Act As / Proxy functionality. In Power BI (including Premium and Fabric), all security is always evaluated against the signed-in Entra ID identity and that identity cannot be temporarily overridden. This is a hard architectural boundary. There is no supported way for a user to impersonate another user, either to see more data or to see less data, while remaining logged in as themselves.
As a result, organizations needing OBIEE-style proxy behavior use external workarounds. The most common method is to create dedicated test or audit accounts that match a real user’s security settings, allowing admins or executives to sign in for validation or troubleshooting. Another approach is to temporarily change security group membership in a controlled and auditable manner. Currently, Power BI does not provide a built-in, user-driven “act as” feature.
Best Regards,Microsoft Fabric Community Support Team
There are bits and pieces of that concept sprinkled across Fabric. One of them is the RLS "View as role/view as user" debug option, another approach is to assign yourself as workspace admin/member/contributor (thus circumventing RLS) and then applying the required filter manually. Another piece of the puzzle is bookmark sharing ("Chat in Teams") that helps with "let me show you what I mean" scenarios.
Another piece of the puzzle is bookmark sharing ("Chat in Teams") that helps with "let me show you what I mean" scenarios.
I would like to know about this more. i cant imagine it helping with the above? surely it wont let you access higher permissions?
the debug again isnt helpful because thats for developers. not for users.