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sharing dashboards externally?
Hi vanessafvg,
I just realised that you're the author of both posts that I'm responding to.
Unfortunately, most of these enablers will likely require help from IT.
You could:
1. Store your files on Sharepoint and grant access to the file to a user in an external organisation. This is provided your company has actually enabled Sharepoint for external usage. In some cases, the licensing your company has purchased does not include external access.
2. Share files via SFTP. Perhaps you can upload the files to their environment then they can refresh Power BI themselves.
3. We have Azure Cloud. So our Power BI Desktop files are created to automatically grab data from our SQL database. We send Power BI Desktop templates to all our suppliers who then just click on Refresh to grab the latest data.
It's a shame personal gateway now requires a PRO license. I'm pretty such that was never the case.
Keep in mind that even with Tableau, you face the same problem. Tableau users have to send the whole files to anyone external for viewing. At least Power BI offers you the capability to semi-automate it provided your environment is set up correctly.
Apologies if I have not made sense. My son has been bugging me the whole time.
Cheers,
Dan
Hi vanessafvg,
I just realised that you're the author of both posts that I'm responding to.
Unfortunately, most of these enablers will likely require help from IT.
You could:
1. Store your files on Sharepoint and grant access to the file to a user in an external organisation. This is provided your company has actually enabled Sharepoint for external usage. In some cases, the licensing your company has purchased does not include external access.
2. Share files via SFTP. Perhaps you can upload the files to their environment then they can refresh Power BI themselves.
3. We have Azure Cloud. So our Power BI Desktop files are created to automatically grab data from our SQL database. We send Power BI Desktop templates to all our suppliers who then just click on Refresh to grab the latest data.
It's a shame personal gateway now requires a PRO license. I'm pretty such that was never the case.
Keep in mind that even with Tableau, you face the same problem. Tableau users have to send the whole files to anyone external for viewing. At least Power BI offers you the capability to semi-automate it provided your environment is set up correctly.
Apologies if I have not made sense. My son has been bugging me the whole time.
Cheers,
Dan
What if we buy an office 365 account for our client (within our organization's domain) and add this user to Power BI service and share Power BI content. So, the external client would need use provided office 365 ID + pass to view Power BI dashboards.
Can this be a solution?
Thanks,
Farshid
- Hi fardid. Yes. This is definitely a solution :)
However, with the recent licensing changed, everyone has to be PRO or on the Premium service.