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Render PowerBI report(PBIX) inside a visual
IMHO you should keep it easy with out of the box Power BI App + Audiences + Workspace Level Security
Create a power bi app with all the reports inside and 2 audiences:
- audience 1: see all reports- audience 2: see only finance report
the app can have RGB theme color and a logo
Workspace access
- add the SME users as contributor role in workspace so they can create reports and add them to the workspace (and to the app if you want)
- add the SME users to the audience 1 so they navigate the app and see all the reports
- add report consumers to the audience 1 and not to the workspace. they won't be able to create new reports just navigate what is exposed by the audience 1
- add finance consumers to the audience 2 and not to the workspace. they won't be able to create new reports just navigate what is exposed by the audience 2
Super UserHi Gokul_PBI, could you provide some additional information on why you're trying to display a report inside a report? Depending on what exactly you're trying to achieve, there are different options that might work for your use case.
Unfortunately, you can't direclty embed a Power BI Report inside a Power BI Report Page through custom visuals.
Different options you could consider though are:
- Navigation buttons or links to navigate from one Report to another. You can link directly to specific report pages and pass filters through the URL if needed.
- Cross-report drillthrough. You can enable drillthrough filters on the target page, and users can right-click and follow through with the same filter context. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-drillthrough
- You can publish your reports through a Power BI App or, if your tenant supports it, an Org App. Both options give you a cleaner navigation structure without having to merge the reports themselves.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-apps
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/org-app-items/org-app-items
I hope any of these options help with what you're trying to achieve!
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Thanks KarinSzilagyi for your detailed response,
Here’s the scenario we are trying to address, which stems from some limitations we’ve encountered with PowerApps:
I need to provide access to a workspace for a group of users, where each user plays a different role within that group.
PowerApps initially seemed like the perfect solution, but there are certain limitations. For example:
- I cannot customize the left-side menu based on user profiles.
- A user with an SME role should see all reports in the workspace and also have a link to create new reports.
- A report consumer should only see the list of reports, without the option to create new ones.
- A finance team member should only see finance-related reports within the same workspace.
- I also want to apply a custom RGB theme color, which PowerApps does not currently support.
- There are other customizations I’d like to implement, but the flexibility to achieve them in PowerApps is limited.
As a result, I started exploring the report option, where I aim to build a report that mimics an app-like interface. The idea is:
- When I click a report link in one visual, the corresponding report should render on the right side within the same report.
- When I click “New Report,” I should see that option appear on the right as well.
Note: I am going to try org apps next week and not sure if that solve our problem.
- KarinSzilagyi
Ok, that's a tricky one... I'm honestly not sure if it will work, but one thing you could try is:
1) Get the information regarding which reports and pages you have in your workspace via the Rest API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports and create a table in your dataset that includes an overview of all Reports, Pages and the URLs to get to those reports/pages. Include this table in the datasets of all reports you're trying to display.
2) Set up RLS on the Report/URL Table to filter who can see which reports (e.g. via by following a specific naming schema to pre-categorize the reports).
3) Create a navigation panel through the HTML Content (or HTML Content Lite) visual. Render each Report/Page from your URL-table as a button. Since you can use custom CSS in the HTML Content Visual, you can style this navigation however you want dynamically.
I did a quick test and in theory it works, but the s....ad part is, that it will always open each navigation click in a new window. I don't believe there's a way to force it to open the report in the same window.
Alternatively I also tried pasting the iframe of each report into a table and displaying that. If you set your report to "Publish to Web (public)" this actually works and you get a fully clickable report inside the HTML Content visual, but I doubt that you would like to expose the underlying Semantic Models like that....You’re absolutely spot on—thank you so much for your answer!
I tried the same approach, but the challenge is rendering it in a visual, which isn’t working as expected. Additionally, we have RLS applied to every report, so Publish to Web (public) may not be a viable option for us.
I’m planning to try using organizational apps, though I’m not entirely sure if that will resolve the issue.
R1k91IMHO you should keep it easy with out of the box Power BI App + Audiences + Workspace Level Security
Create a power bi app with all the reports inside and 2 audiences:
- audience 1: see all reports- audience 2: see only finance report
the app can have RGB theme color and a logo
Workspace access
- add the SME users as contributor role in workspace so they can create reports and add them to the workspace (and to the app if you want)
- add the SME users to the audience 1 so they navigate the app and see all the reports
- add report consumers to the audience 1 and not to the workspace. they won't be able to create new reports just navigate what is exposed by the audience 1
- add finance consumers to the audience 2 and not to the workspace. they won't be able to create new reports just navigate what is exposed by the audience 2
- I cannot customize the left-side menu based on user profiles.
