Power BI User on 20 May 2020 00:52:59
Recreating this idea, since the previous version seems to have been deleted.
One app per workspace is extremely limiting in large organizations, where many different subsets of reports need to be shared with different users. One example: I have a collection of reports in an app. All need to be shared with management, but only some should be visible to non management. Currently, I would have to create multiple workspaces with duplicate reports to accomplish this. Using datasets across multiple workspaces does NOT fill this use case. An alternate solution might be to allow access restrictions for each report included in an app.
- Comments (7)
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
Totally agree! My solution was to work in power Bi Desktop with PBI Service Dataset as a source and upload the same report to different workspaces. So i do not need to copy it across workspaces.
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
Yes, totally agree. In our organization, we have same needs.
Because of "one source of truth", we will like to use ONE absolute dataset across different WORKSPACE. But APP from different WS other than dataset needs to add access permission to the original WS. This is too annoying! But if we can publish mutilple APP from one WS, we can publish different type of collection of report APP based on the viewers need.
Please consider.
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
Yes, I would have thought this idea would have many votes, I see that the original idea was deleted. It is obvious and definitely required.
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
Agreed on this, we were so close to thinking of a great workaround. Adding an option on the copy reports to another workspace button (a checkbox that says update copied reports when original report is updated / and another that says update published apps to include this report). This would allow you to publish a source report and then publish reference reports to other workspaces that way you can manage the security of what a user can see at the workspace level for the reference reports. Then only users with access to those workspaces can see the reports and you can then publish with little to no issues. It's janky, but could work.
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
I have so many customers who cannot understand why this has not been catered for
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
It was also listed here as an Idea with a couple thousand votes, before it was deleted a couple months ago for some reason.
RE: Create Multiple Apps per Workspace
This was asked for three years ago, yet nothing was done.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Can-we-create-multiple-apps-from-same-workspace/idi-p/183698