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Row level Security not working right now?
tdimbladThe RLS is currently working with the June 2016 power bi update. You can now set up the role and rule in Power BI desktop. And it would not overwrite the role members in Power BI service, which is what is supposed to be. But on the power BI service, it still says it is a preview feature - so I guess we still can not use it for production.
I wonder whether the issue stems from a mismatch between the May version of PB Desktop & what I would expect will be released in the June update of the tool? An older (solved) thread on this same topic led me to this article, where it talks about RLS as a feature added to the desktop. May release of the software (as of this morning, still the only version in download), this feature is missing...
Hope I'm not being just a stupid user, can anyone confirm they are missing the desktop Preview option to "Enable cross-filtering in both directions for DirectQuery" and also the "Manage Roles" option under Modelling that are mentioned in the article?
tdimblad I can confirm that it is missing. I assume it will be in the June update as you can see the article was published 2-3 days ago. Apparently Power BI team has been working on this.
tdimbladThe RLS is currently working with the June 2016 power bi update. You can now set up the role and rule in Power BI desktop. And it would not overwrite the role members in Power BI service, which is what is supposed to be. But on the power BI service, it still says it is a preview feature - so I guess we still can not use it for production.
Yes it is still a preview feature. With the June 2016 release of Power BI Desktop the role creation was moved from the Power BI service to Power BI Desktop. Existing roles that were configured in the service will not work, and the roles need to be setup within Power BI Desktop and then published to the service.
The nice thing with that is republishing will not cause the roles to get blown away now. As they are part of the Power BI Desktop file.
Youl will still need to add members to the role within the Power BI service.
For more information about RLS, and a list of known limitations, you can check out the official doc.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-rls/
I setup RLS in desktop, published it to the service and the RLS works in 'Test as Role' mode, but doesn't work when I push out the reports/dataset as a content pack to users. Are content packs not supported?
