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FrancoisHuard
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8 years ago
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Share with PowerBI App VS Share Report

Hey guys,   I would like to know what are the advantages do you see from sharing dashboard/report/ds with App versus sharing the asset directly from the app workspace.   Currently, we have 1 App ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Hello,

     

         I am currently looking for a method to be able to send out a link to my organization (internal only) that won't require them to have access, download or sign in, or create an account with Power BI. From your post (link) I was able to read through and see that with Power BI apps it appears you should be able to share with end users with a single link (no registration/login required for Power BI account). Is that the case? If not, do you know of a method to be able to create a dashboard/report and share it internally with my company without them having to sign in or create an account? 

     

         This is what I read from where you posted earlier (Link)

    My Thoughts on Power BI Apps

    Power BI Apps comes to replace content pack and workspaces with one better solution, and it is very promising. With this new combination, you will have the power of both; You can use workspaces to group the content and give edit access to your power users. And you can also use the content pack to share the content with the end users.

    Power BI App is a very new feature, and many updates will come for this shortly, including;

    • Disassociating from Office 365 groups.
    • Push app to uses without the need for them to install (get) it.
    • Copying content between workspaces.

    Thanks,
    Brady

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      7 years ago

      Anonymous I can't tell if what you are asking is to circumvent licensing, or from a usability perspective. There is no way to share content without a license, the one method "publish to web" exposes your company data to the world... which would likely mean you are breaking all your data security policies if you do it. Alternatively,  the only way you could get users to just "see" a report is by using an embedded license, and embedding the power bi report into a custom application. Then any user can just log into that page, or have it on a company portal and they could see the report without any need to login.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        7 years ago

        Hello,

         

        Thank you for the feedback! I was actually able to find the method of publishing to a custom app to display the reports in an internal app the way I was looking to do in my request. I wasn't concerned about licensing, more the usability of being able to share a report to stakeholders without having them required to log in. Thanks so much for your feedback!

         

        Thanks,
        Brady