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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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mcharing
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9 years ago

Hi Edwardrmiles,

 

Do you already have solution? I also want to protect the data model in Power BI. Do all users of the data model need to have office 365 and a power BI to grant and control acces control?

 

Hope to hear more by anyone who can help!

 

 

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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