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Eniola_O
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Row Level Security - Roles Defined in Power BI Service

Hello,

I have a report on power BI service that is used by multiple clients, and they are only allowed to view their data. To manage data access, I defined roles in Desktop and applied RLS in Service so the data filters down for each client.
However, the plan is to make the report a self-sevice where clients can connect the report to their data in Service and only see their data. So I would like to avoid the manual process of defining roles in Desktop. Is there a way for me to define and assign roles entirely in Service? Or is there a workaround for automating RLS?

Thanks.

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Anonymous
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Hi @Eniola_O 

You can define RLS only on the datasets created with Power BI Desktop, so if you want to define the role , you need to implement it on the desktop, you can refer to the following link.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-admin-rls#considerations-and-limitatio...

 

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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