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jonjoseph
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3 years ago

is it possible to share workspace with external users via API

We are currently using Power BI Report Server internally, so don't have much experience with the cloud offering. We are looking to share some data with our clients and was looking at the possibility...
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jonjoseph
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3 years ago

Hi aj1973 

Thanks for responding to my query. Is this available if both are just Power BI Pro users without azure?

Is there an API that the external user can use to access the data? 

The only API references I have found are related to administering the invites on my side.  It doesnt help that most of the things are locked down for me as we are just establishing a cloud footprint. 

I did find Datasets - Execute Queries - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn which allows the user to query the dataset but it has limitations on the data.

I'm assuming theres a best practice approach for this, as it must be fairly common use case.

Thanks

 

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    aj1973
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    3 years ago

    Hi jonjoseph 

    In order for the external user to be able to access and use Power BI APIs , the user must be registered in Azure AD as a Guest and Grant access by the Tenant. Yes you need Azure AD