higher ed
1 TopicReporting overall totals along with user specific data using row level security (RLS)
Greetings everyone, My office and I are new to Power BI and come from a SAS Visual Analytics environment. We are trying, most likely without spending the needed time watching videos and training materials, but our transition window is short. We have a good grasp on creating reports but have a challenging requirement. We are only looking for direction on where to find and answer if one is available. We will certainly do the necessary work to get the report up and running, we just want to start at the right place. Here is a simplified explanation of our challenge; we are in higher education and need to provide an overall success rate for all courses in each department as well as for a specific course which we can do. In addition, we also need to display, in the same report, a specific faculty members success rate for the same course. The wrinkle is this is that it needs to be done with row level security because the college has a policy of not allowing faculty members to view other faculty members information. In other words, when a faculty member views the report, they should see the following: The success rate for each course(s) they taught. That is, the faculty member’s specific course data. The overall aggregated department success rate that offers the courses. The overall aggregated success rate for the specific course or courses the faculty member taught. In other words, the ability for the faculty member to compare their student success rate to the aggregated success rate of all other faculty who taught the same course. We were able to do this in SAS Visual Analytics using parameters and two separate data sources. It was clunky, but it worked. I do not see anything that looks familiar in Power BI, but I admit, we are still at the base of a steep learning curve and timetable. Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, GarySolved
