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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Restrict creation of Dataflows

We have a large organization with trained power users who are trained to build own reports based on pre-existing datasets, enterprise data warehouses and local data. And we also have a highly skilled BI Team, taking care of the enterprise reporting.

 

I like the idea of dataflows which can enable us to provide entities from the enterprise data warehouse which can be re-used by our power users. This reduces duplication of data drastically.

However, as Dataflows have a direct impact on Premium utilization we would like to control the creation of Dataflows by only enabling certain users to create new dataflows.

 

Is there a way to manage this? E.g. that only a BI Team can create Dataflows and Power Users can then make use of the entities?

Thanks for the help!

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    Anonymous
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    Hi Anonymous ,

    Current power bi not support to accurate control permission for create dataflow. I'd like to suggest you only assign edit permission to specific users, other read permission users not able to create dataflows.

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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      Anonymous
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      Hi Anonymous 

       

      Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that will not work. All pro users are able to create dataflows unless I can restrict it in the admin section. I can provide read permissions to the one I create, but I will not be able to stop them from creating more dataflows.