Sharing semantic model to other workspaces

[ldwf]

We have a semantic model residing in our production workspace.  We are not yet on Fabric but will be very soon.  We'd like to share the semantic model with a group outside of our team and workspace so that they can build dashboards against the semantic model and publish their dashboards to their workspace.  Currently the other group does not have admin access to our workspace, and we don't have access to theirs but we would like to just have one version of the semantic model so that when we change it and publish it, the changes are reflected so that the other group can see the changes.  I have read that it's possible to share with other people, but not sure how to share it with a totally different workspace.  Do the other group need to create an AD group and then I share the semantic model with that AD group?

[blopez11 · Accepted solution]

Using a group may be easier to manage access on your semantic model.  You would then grant the group Read and Build permissions on the model.  You do not need to grant them access to your workspace.

[MasonMA · Accepted solution]

Using an Azure AD security group is a best practice. It simplifies access management and scales better than individual permissions.

Once you're on Microsoft Fabric, the sharing model becomes even more flexible, Semantic models can be created and edited directly in the web or Power BI Desktop using TMDL and they can be reused across Fabric workloads (notebooks, pipelines) via Semantic Link

[ldwf]

thanks.

[lbendlin]

How do you use Pro licenses, and are you sharing workspaces or apps?

[ldwf]

we share our dashboards by providing a link to the app, and manage security in the audiences using AD Groups

[lbendlin]

Share via the app and give build access to the app audiences. Then they can access your semantic model.

[blopez11 · Accepted solution]

Using a group may be easier to manage access on your semantic model.  You would then grant the group Read and Build permissions on the model.  You do not need to grant them access to your workspace.

[ldwf]

thanks