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neilmercer
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3 years ago

RLS in Fabric

Hi, How is Row Level Security set up in Fabric using a Lakehouse and Dataset?  When editing the dataset, the option for managing roles on the toolbar is disabled.  In theory, I could create a repo...
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ibarrau
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3 years ago

Hi. In some way, there is no change on the way RLS works. RLS is configured at PowerBi desktop for an imported data model or a Direct Query one. You open desktop, get data and configure RLS.

If you create a dataset from a Lakehouse at service, then you are using Direct Lake. That means the connection goes directly from the model to the lakehouse. There are limitations of Direct Lake in Public Preview:

  • Some limitations of Direct Lake in its current Public Preview state include the inability to create row-level security and the limitation that RLS automatically switches the table to Direct Query mode. These limitations are expected to be addressed in the future.

I hope that helps