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Vural Tuysuz on 23 Oct 2017 22:55:59

Dear Support Team,
Before June 2017, once we shared a dashboard with external users (outside of the organization) it was visible on "Shared With Me" tab for the shared users, but with the new licencing policy this feature is no longer working for the external users.
Can we please consider to bring it back?

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021a163e f88f-42f3-b3f7-2099f5f1952f on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:42

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

Thanks all that have voted.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/mobile/mobile-apps-b2b

Even Microsoft claims "Power BI integrates with Azure Active Directory business-to-business (Azure AD B2B) to allow secure distribution of Power BI content to guest users outside your organization. And external guest users can use the Power BI mobile app to access that Power BI content shared with them."

but it doesn't mention how clumsy it is on the Power BI Mobile app to access it.

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6695a8e7 1be2-4743-9804-81f170769c02 on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:58

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

We are sharing our reports with the external users with pro accounts and it makes no sense to give access through the link and not showing these reports in the "shared with me" section. That results in bad UX as well as complains from customer sides.

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c0decf5b 5271-4465-8195-1f12b2cbc58a on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:39

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

We share reports and dashboards with external customers and it is very inconvenient for them to have to follow a link to access the data on their mobile apps.

It would be extremely helpful if they could save these to their favorites or view them in the "Shared with me" tab for easier access on both Power BI service and the mobile apps!

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f0fbaff3 a98e-49d2-a2fc-c5cf91b87283 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:00

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

I have a customer also that would prefer to see the reports I share with them under "Shared With Me" section of their own Power BI environment. They would rather not keep track of multiple URLs.

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89d4b14e 8b72-ea11-a811-000d3a579c39 on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:49

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

Indeed this feature is really required.

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6279b44b 5132-4c0a-ba0c-d76711514ba1 on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:21

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

This is a crucial functionality to have for sharing with clients.
It is very confusing to have a "Shared with me" tab and not be able to see the reports shared from the outside of the organization.
Not to mention the terrible experience on mobile.

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8293a8bc b2d6-4bc3-b77b-4ea2f2b138d9 on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:16

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

This is such an important functionality to have when sharing Apps with external customers. Especially when external customers are senior people. This would enhance their user experience and make the solution much more professional.

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77f807c8 c651-454d-8677-3d1a2f131b9d on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:13

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I think it's an interesting option, if at the end of the day it's a named user (although not pro), you should be able to save the relationship.

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87e1ea95 de54-4f96-99f9-1d5cfe573f29 on 05 Jul 2020 23:43:20

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

Growing number of our customers would love to offer Reports to their customers, which are external users. The possibility to do that is really great. But if the customer looses the link in his email, he is not able to see the reports. And it always considered a bug that the report or app or dashboard is not visible in the "shared with me" section...because IT IS shared with me...

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1ca24ce1 512c-44ae-9f44-7e1387b34cdf on 05 Jul 2020 23:40:36

RE: Shared With Me Tab for External Users

We too are experiencing this problem with external sharing. In fact, it's a larger problem as we share with users who do not have O365 accounts and they cannot even sign in if they do not have the direct report or app URL.