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DeanUW
Helper I
4 years ago
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Static RLS not showing data in Power BI Service

I have implemented a static RLS based on office key on a dimension table of a star schema.  The RLS works perfectly in Power BI desktop when I "View as".  The RLS works perfectly fine when I "Test as...
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  • DeanUW's avatar
    DeanUW
    4 years ago

    Hi GilbertQ,

     

    That explination made total sense, thank you again.  I was able to resolve the issue by modifying the DAX using the double pipe ||.  Allowing me to add the additional office locations to a single RLS role, then assigning the appropriate people to that single RLS role.

     

    Example:  [Office Name] = "XXXX" || [Office Name] = "YYYY"

     

    Hope this may help others!  Thank you again!

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DeanUW
Helper I
4 years ago

Hello GilbertQ

 

Thanks for the response.  Below is a quote from the July 2022 Feature Summary you attached to your response to me:

 

"We’ve also made a major improvement to composite models this month by enabling support for multi-role RLS. Model owners can now assign a single user to more than one RLS role in a composite model. Prior to this release, users who set up RLS in their composite models this way would likely hit a query failure."

 

Seems to me the feature isn't working as promised.

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    GilbertQ
    Super User
    4 years ago

    Hi DeanUW 

     

    As per the link this is only for Composite models who connect to data sources OUTSIDE of the Power BI Service.

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      DeanUW
      Helper I
      4 years ago

      Apologies I am still somewhat new to Power BI.  By my understanding the report in question is a composite model; as it has multiple many-to-many relationships within the tables and it has mutliple sources including ODBC imports from different databases and Excel spreadsheets.  As always, I appreciate the responses & the support!

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        GilbertQ
        Super User
        4 years ago

        Hi DeanUW 

         

        No worries for the questions, that is how we all learn.


        A composite model is where you have an imported Power BI Dataset, with another dataset from another underlying system which is then added to the Power BI dataset.


        In your example you have a single Power BI dataset which has got imported data from ODBC and Excel spreadsheets. This is called a Power BI Dataset. And it is not a composite model.

         

        I hope that makes sense.