I have a Power BI report which has a button with link to a Power BI paginated report. The Power BI report is sourcing data from an Azure Analysis Service(AAS) and has Row Level Security(RLS) applied to it. I want to make sure that the paginated report also has the RLS applied. I am struggling with the process to apply RLS on the paginated report for Azure Active Directory(AAD).
The AAS has roles based on AAD. How do I apply same RLS (by AAD) on the paginated report?
Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
Currently RLS only works on report server or database side, you can't enable RLS on paginated report
What we can do here is we can embed the paginated report and when you embed a paginated report, you can control which data is displayed. This allows tailoring the displayed information per user. For example, if you have a Power BI paginated report that includes global sale results, you can embed it so that only the sale results from a certain region are available.
This feature provides a secure way of displaying a subset of the data, in a way that doesn't compromise the rest of data. It resembles the Row Level Security feature, which provides a secure way of displaying data in Power BI reports (that are not paginated), dashboards, tiles, and datasets.
When applying row-level security to a Power BI paginated report, you need to assign a Perameter to the UserID attribute. This parameter will restrict the data pulled from the dataset, before the report is embedded.
Here is the reference doc to Use row-level security with Power BI embedded analytics content - Power BI
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I have a bunch of users who can view and create new data using Power Apps (Canvas) forms. They can view all data in Power BI also.
I want to restrict access to certain data in Power BI and Power Apps for some users.
All data viewed and created by these users is stored in a SQL Server database. The connection to this SQL DB is made using SQL server authentication (username and password).
What options do I have to restrict creation and viewing of certain data for some users? I know of row-level security, Active Directory groups and roles, Power BI user roles, etc.
I am unsure of the best approach, and when one or the other approach should be taken.
I am trying to connect my Power BI Report to my organization's SQL database. I just want to know that if it will assist me in providing business reports to the business on time. Currently we are doing extraction from database via FTP and putting it into Excel and cleaning the data and then formatting it to the user's needs. You can imagine the how tiresome this can will be.
I just want to know that if it will assist me in providing business reports to the business on time ?
Answer is yes.
To get better outcome you need to do research on their logics, requirements, how visualization present, KPI etc..... Once you finalize those things you can start working on implementations.
Note: Try to identify visualizations that display stakeholder's requirements. Because powerbi dashboard only for the upper management level, They need to get business decisions only for looking at graphs.
They can export data via excel sheet, powerpoint slide or pdf for their need, so you need to format those excel sheets also with the implementations.
I use Microsoft Report Builder to produce indicators (reports in .rdl format). They are based on pre-calculated data in an intermediate database.
We would also need to rely on Jira data, however I couldn't find a way to use Jira data sources. Is it possible ?
(I didn't have this problem with Power BI, however I wanted to go to Report Builder to keep costs down.)
Thanks.
So, I am pretty new at using Power BI, so I'm having some issues when building reports that use on-premises Data Gateway. My goal is to build different reports in Power BI (let´s say 4 reports, as an example), all of them getting information from the same web data base. The problem is that everytime someone access this online data base, my company has to pay a small amount of money.
The reports refresh once per day, exactly at 2AM, using the on-premises Data Gateway. My point is: will the on-premises Data Gateway access this data base once per day, at 2 AM, and refresh all the reports or will it access it once for exery report (meaning 4 access at 2AM)?
If something is unclear, just warn me and I try to provide more information. Thanks!
It will follow the "4 access at 2AM" scenario.
I would design one master/dataset report that extracts all the required data from the source database. Once published (to your workspace or a group workspace), I would use that dataset as the source for the other 3 reports. From Power BI Desktop, go to Get Data / Power BI service.
Then you only have 1 dataset to refresh via the gateway. Another benefit is that you only have one set of queries & modelling to maintain.
It depends on how you have created the report. If the dataset is exactly the same, you should publish only one report and create the other 3 desktop files connecting to Power Bi Service as dataset. In that way you can have only one dataset for four reports and will refresh only once a day.
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I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008. I have one dataset which is shared among several reports--each report groups or formats data differently. Is it possible to configure things so that the data is pulled from SQL Server when one of these reports is built and then cached within SSRS for a configurable period of time? Assume that I can select against database tables but can not create objects.
Here's another option, which although complex, might fit your requirements.
Have all of the reports use an XML data source. Then create that XML datasource as an ASP.Net web page or web service. Configure and use SQL Cache Dependency to control when the database would be queried again.
Now, any time any one of the reports asks for the data it will be cached in your "middle tier".
Unfortunately no.
Your main option would be to investigate "Report Snapshots" to explicitly cache the report (and indirectly the data)
Otherwise:
You could change the reports to have a lot of conditional formatting etc so you only have one report. Some caching will happen automatically per user session, but not much
Use the ReportViewer control in local processing mode, using ASP.NET to cache data
You can now in SSRS 2008 R2:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438.aspx - Shared DataSets
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155927.aspx - Report Caching in Reporting Services
Go SQL!