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    Create a view scenario where you can impersonate a viewer of a dashboard/report so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees.

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    Jason Himmelstein on 30 Jan 2015 05:26:03

    Create a view scenario where we can impersonate a named user so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees when they view a dashboard or report.

    Administrator on 27 Oct 2015 06:56:31

    We are planning to do this for data that is stored in the cloud. What models were you particularly interested in?

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    d0672181 b9c1-42de-9918-8e69e71682e4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:41

    RE: Create a view scenario where you can impersonate a viewer of a dashboard/report so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees.

    Hi You can create a role in the pbix and then once in power bi navigate to the role within the dataset/security and click 'test as role'. It's not perfect but it can be useful.

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    a3a54cb0 f063-4252-88df-bfa065372dda on 05 Jul 2020 22:17:38

    RE: Create a view scenario where you can impersonate a viewer of a dashboard/report so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees.

    I'm not exactly sure what you mean by models - but what if data isn't stored in the cloud?

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    eaeb3ba2 4935-4aab-bad0-e8841c5a0209 on 05 Jul 2020 22:16:32

    RE: Create a view scenario where you can impersonate a viewer of a dashboard/report so that we can see exactly what the consumer sees.

    We currently need a second machine to be logged in as a market specific user to test reports. We build very general reports and let role level security built into our data model a lot of filtering but have no good way to view/test reports as a user.