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Share App for external users
No, no, no. I have Pro licence (Provider side) and as my client has Pro too (consumer side). I share the app. I used trial licence only to test purpose at consumer side.
Now problem is fixed. First of all I didn't notice that my account has enabled Fabric. In this scenario (as I suspected) I have to assign fabric free licence to the clients who hasn't own Fabric licence. This problem causes another one. System asked my client to create new fabric account and he did this. It made new issue: two separated accounts with the same email address: one with Pro licence and another without.
But finally I decided to another scenario to fix the issue. I turned of Fabric at my account. After propagation time of changes, my client had to properly logout from this no licence account. Then we made new clear login and accepted invitation again.
It seems to me that the link provided is outdated. Active Directory is now called Entra ID. Besides this, I sent the the invitation exactly the way is described.
According to the table and previous tests, sharing Power BI Pro -> Power BI Pro should be possible. However, when receivers are trying to accept the invitation, the system asks for a Fabric account.
I granted a free Fabric license to the client and the test account. The test account after run trial pro license has access to the application now. I wonder if Fabric account is really nessesery?
The client has a different problem. It turns out that the system has created a shadow account with the same email address but no license.
How can I send an invitation for a specific account if the email address is not sufficient to recognize the account?
Hi, RadekS
Thank you very much for your reply. The account you are sharing needs to be able to sign in to Power BI Service normally. Have you tested whether your test account is able to access Power BI Service normally?
Best Regards
Jianpeng Li