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Share Report with Client Via Sharepoint or Other Method?
Have you thought of different file delivery methods? A PBIX report is just a file and therefor it can be moved around easily. Before we had our Report Server up and running we shared the reports both via email and a shared drive. The only requirement is the view has to have Power BI Desktop installed in order to view the report. It's a free download so cost should be a limitation with that. However, this possibly wouldn't work if you use DirectQuery for your data connections as the report would try to pull fresh data each time and your user's may not have access to the data source.
Hey MNMark
Thanks for your reply. I thought about this as it is an inexpensive alternative. However, the goal is to charge the end users a subscription fee. Because of this we don't want them to have any access to what the actual data looks like and we would prefer the files remain somewhere we can update them. Therefore, we are looking for an embedded type solution minus the cost.
- GilbertQ
Super User
Hi there
You certainly can grant them each a Power BI Pro License and then view it via SharePoint that will work very well.
I would not recommend the sharing of the PBIX because reporting changes would need to be maintained and emailed around. Yes it can be done but if to a large amount of users it can become quite a challenge.
