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edwardrmiles
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10 years ago

Protecting a content pack's data models / DAX from clients

Is it possible to publish a content pack that restricts the user from accessing the underlying data model and DAX?   I'm working on a project for a consultant who uses an Excel workbook as a deskto...
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edwardrmiles
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9 years ago

Hi mcharing

 

Sorry for the slow reply.  I'm not sure if my problem is identical to yours but I didn't reach a conclusion so I decided to use the Power BI components in Excel instead.  Not as good by my client didn't want their clients to see any DAX / M and I could use VBA in Excel to do that.  I think publish to web might also work but that makes the content public which wouldn't work for me

 

As to your point about Office 365 & Power BI.  Users will need at least a Power BI free account to recieve your report.  They don't need an Office 365 account unless you want to use the functionality of Office 365 Groups - then they would need an Office 365 account as well as a Power BI pro license

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BetterIdeaGroup
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8 years ago

It seems to me that the Power Bi team could offer something as simple as a password option to open the underlying datasource under the "Edit Queries"  to help provide some IP protection