Dominic Fraser on 29 Jul 2015 18:33:59
Right now, If I use PowerBI desktop to create a dataset, report and dashboard. I am not able to share it with a standard user. This effectively means that we have to either licence everyone as a pro (very expensive for 4k people), or not use the pro features at all (which isn't what we want).
Pro users should be able to build and schedule the PowerBI, and then be able to share with any company user using AD security groups.
Without these options the tool may not be a viable option...
- Comments (92)
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Agree with this statement. Microsoft should make Pro for creation of dashboards, and free or a cheaper version for viewing of these. Licensing everyone on pro just to look at the dashboards is not going to happen.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
What a great tool that will fall off the cliff because of a silly pricing scheme.
I can create creative dashboards/reports using BI Pro with connection to our SQL data using a gateway, but I can't share with anyone because it requires $10/month/employee for eighty employees to view. No way that's going to fly!
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
I have same concern here and I dont even remember when did I signed up for Pro.
All my users are on free and unable to access. Also anyway I can turn back on free version from Pro?
I did think no but still
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Currently we are havind the same issues - I have created few dashborad but not able to share unless the user has PRO license.
We urgently need workaround on this
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
It's an essential point, especially for a company with hundred of users.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
What a joke. PowerBI, you lost another client
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
This may be a deal breaker. We've been building out our models for the last few months, but now when I create a few dashboards to share I find I can't really share them with anyone. Creating the model is the hard part - it'll be easy for us to find a competitor such as Tableau or Qlick that will be cheaper and migrate the few dashboards we have to their software. Please reconsider this MS.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
this is a deal breaker for our company. Reporting and analyst team would need paid licenses to produce reports but the 1000's of viewers would need free access to the end results. If this isn't possible we won't even be looking at it.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Need to reopen this. Increase the licensing cost for pro if necessary. Other BI options like tableau have free readers for non licensed users. Either that or figure out a way to make Web Publishing private so sharing can happen that way.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
This needs to be reopened. If you have to use pro to schedule refreshes or hit azure, then we won't use power BI, despite a dedicated investment in azure. The fact that this is specifically shut out with powerBI embedded just makes it clearer that the pricing model and the technical reality don't match. Please don't force us to go find a different solution; Power BI lets us use analysts who speak excel for visualization instead of developers.