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olivex
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Share dashboard to external users

We have some Power BI dashboards to share to external users. We create a new tenant for these external users and shared our dashboards to them. Sharing seemed to be success. However upon these external users' login, they do not see these dashboards in 'Shared with me'. But if they click the link in the email that notifies the external user the sharing, they can open the shared dashboard. In my Power BI console, I see these sharing to be 'Guest' and read-only,

 

Is it designed behavior? How can make these shared dashboards appear on external users 'Shared with me' pane?

 

This also brings another issue, that if the external user has to click the link in the email to access the shared dashboard, I have to subscribe email service for them in the new tenant. This is additional cost.

6 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    olivex "Shared with Me" will only show the content shared within the Tenant... External shares are not there, whether that is by design or a feature that will change, I don't know.

    A potential solution that is on the roadmap is sharing via Apps and Azure B2B. This would most likely be the best use case when it is released. Reference

    • olivex's avatar
      olivex
      Regular Visitor

      Thanks Anonymous. So Is there a way other than email to allow the external user to access the shared dashboard? Because using email means I need to subscribe office365 Exchange service for them, an additional cost.

       

      • GilbertQ's avatar
        GilbertQ
        Super User

        Hi olivex


        You can share dashboards to any external user as long as their emails are not @gmail.com or @hotmail.com etc.

  • olivex's avatar
    olivex
    Regular Visitor

    I don't understand why someone other than OP could 'accept as solution'?