Workaround RLS assignment

[Anonymous]

Dear community, 

is it possible to avoid the assignment of users to roles in the PBI Service? 

In detail: RLS

1. You create a role in Desktop 
2. Publish your app in PBI Service
3. And apply some users of the workspace to your created roles 

But I need an other concept of data securtiy, even easier. I'm about to implement my dashboard into my own web-app by API. I'd like to offer my customer the access-management through my web-app without using PBI Service.  

My first idea was to use the current [username/userprincipal] within the repor-level-filter. It sounds easy, effective and absolutely sufficient for my requirements. 

Do anyone knows, how to realise that? I wasn't able to filter my userlist by current logged user. 

Hope my requirement is clear. Thanks in advance!

[v-xicai · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Your demand is a good idea, while it is not supported to apply RLS in dynamic report URL filter in Power BI currently. You can post your new idea in Idea Forum , to improve the Power BI.

It is a place for customers provide feedback about Microsoft Office products . What’s more, if a feedback is high voted there by other customers, it will be promising that Microsoft Product Team will take it into consideration when designing the next version in the future.

As GilbertQ's suggestion, you may refer to the document to configure RLS with Power BI Embedded.

Best Regards,

Amy

Community Support Team _ Amy

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

If you are working with Power BI and embedding your report into your own app below is a link on how to configure RLS

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded-row-level-security