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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Self Service BI in APP or Workspace

Dear Community   We are looking into ways to implement PowerBI in our organisation.   For plain distribution of reports PowerBI does a great jojb and we have fun creating the reports and sharing ...
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

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 regards

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8 years ago

Anonymous 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.

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    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.