Unable to save existing report (Save As works fine) via Embedded/App owns Data

[emotix]

Hey there,

We're unable to save existing reports via Power BI embedded. We're able to Create and Save As just fine, however, editing an existing report and 'File' > 'Save' just isn't working.

Permissions appear to be fine on the Power BI/Azure side. The user is a Power BI pro account user and the admin of the power bi workspace.

Is there a chance this just isn't supported at all? Hopefully someone has an idea, we're running around chasing our tail at this point. I'm willing to bet it isn't as the GenerateTokenRequest only has a parameter to allow SaveAs.

Thanks!

[v-sihou-msft]

@emotix

We have reported this issue internally. 

Regards,

[emotix]

Hi sihou

Any update? This is a big showstopper for us.

Thank you 

[emotix]

Any insight to this issue yet? We're still unable to save.

Same issue as before:

[jawarren]

Same here!!! Any updates?

[emotix · Accepted solution]

Hey jawarren, we figured it out not long ago after contacting Microsoft through the office support ticketing system.

Turns out there is no bug, the above response from MS threw me off for months thinking they indeed had a problem to fix.

When you generate the token request, make sure you pass "edit" for the access level. That's all we were missing. Hope that helps!

var generateTokenRequestParameters = new GenerateTokenRequest(accessLevel: "edit");

[Anonymous]

Hi @emotix,

I don't fully understand your solution.

Previously I had no issues saving the report from the workspace, but then all of a sudden I had this issue. 

I don't know where to check for the token request? 

[mikegaryswine]

I am querying from Google Analytics and MailChimp and am receiving this error. I am not sure where to change the token request to "edit." 

How do I do this?

Thanks,

Mike

[jawarren]

That works! Thank you! I can't tell you how much time I've spent on this and documentation I've searched through! We are generating our tokens with http requests via the Power BI API and I can't find any mention of this anywhere: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt784614.aspx