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Self Service BI in APP or Workspace
Anonymous
In essence, free users that are using a premium capacity through APPS won't have access to the APP Workspace, unless they are in possesion of a Pro License. Am I getting this right? - Correct
"Maybe there are other ways to solve this problem? With licensing for App Workspace."
What do you mean by that exactly? Giving users the Pro License? - Yes, just re-iterating the above statement I madein the original post.
The overall issue revolves around sharing. Converting the "free user" to someone who needs app workspace permission or the ability to share content requires a Pro license. My recommendations in the original post sort of dive into other ways those free users could access a datasource to build their own reports, but they can't share those without a Pro. Premium is great for users who need only "read" access, the minute a user needs more it typically falls into the need for the Pro license.
End users could use the Natural Language Q&A feature to visualize the data in different ways from the dashboard, but, again, not exactly what your looking for.
Thanks a lot Anonymous!
I think I have a clear view now.
Converting the "free user" to someone who needs app workspace permission or the ability to share content requires a Pro license. Good thing is that we don't want them to be able to share their created content (reports etc.). It is sufficient if a Free User can already connect to a Dataset that is shared within a Content Pack to create his own reports and save it in their personal workspace. We want to allow the sharing of those created reports thorugh super users with a pro License at a later stage. But until then, the read-only access is sufficient as it seems.
I will post an update once I have tested the discussed setup.
Again, your help was much appreciated
Hi Anonymous
I finally was able to test my scenario. I thought about publishing a content pack with a blank report for free users to access. After a local copy creation this works fine, but not for users without Pro I figured.
This probably comes down to the fact that the content pack is not shared in the premium capacity. Free users can only consume what was shared in that premium capacity.
Is there any way to nest the content pack into the premium capacity so that a free user can create a local copy of the dataset in his personal workspace? (it refreshes when the original dataset is refreshed)
Thanks again and best regardsAnonymous Not that I'm aware of. The only method for sharing in premium is via Apps. Additionally, Apps is the new solution that will eventually replace Content Packs altogether from my understanding. I believe Content Packs are on the road to be deprecated, so i wouldn't invest a ton of time in building a solution around them.
I'm personally not a fan of that sharing method, to many opportunities for major error.
Thanks for the reply Anonymous
Yeah, I have the same impression and heard that this is on their roadmap. I hope they will include some kind of Self Service BI in APPS sometime soon.
As most of our users rely on cloud-based applications, a local installation of PowerBI Desktop for them to connect to a dataset is not a solution we are striving for. Especially not for end users who hardly know the tool.
I will try and get some more information.