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Ability to view shared reports/dashboards with free license

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Nanda Reddy on 30 Jun 2016 22:36:44

We currently have products that basically integrate the reports and the app users just view the reports. It wont make much sense for all the app users to purchase pro license as all they do is view the reports when in the app.

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7bc0aefe dfd4-4c2b-a578-c72982210737 on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:56

RE: Ability to view shared reports/dashboards with free license

I have been learning and developing power bi since last 3 years and am a manufacturing guy, learned this technique all they way, including SQL,M, DAX...promoted Power BI a lot in the organization. Didn't know that just seeing report also need this much money.
It needs to be made cost effective.
Even further, when businesses are drowning in current situation, we cant justify this cost. Please make seeing the report free with current pro license fee. This will help smaller companies use Power bi as standard tool and MS will definitely get business once these companies gets the benefits out of these reports and decide to go more bold in using Power bi. Please don't kill the idea just in the beginning.

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beba1cc9 1bfa-479a-826e-9e0cf9af2222 on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:27

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So Microsoft.. This is still not fixed?

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4fbdfbdf 4873-4351-a937-d3948cac8285 on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:54

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This is ridiculous, needing a pro license to view report that is shared by a pro license, damn you Microsoft!

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806afb0f 6e1e-4e30-a255-5fcde7d5be2e on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:50

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We still need a lite-license to get a realistic price for smaller companies, where maybe 5 users need full function/drilling etx, and another 35 users only needs a "diagram in sharepoint" without drilling etc.

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5b1004c4 caa0-4b2b-9010-8ec2d30e2334 on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:53

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I work at a company with about 300 employees. We have O365 and have built a lot of reports in Power BI. Since we have a lot of Sales people who only need access to the reports like once a week. We also have some people who only need to look at the reports once per month or even once per quarter. It feels absurd that we should pay $10 per month per user for this purpose.

Maybe there could be different levels of PRO? I mean one for developers ($50?) and another for people who only need to view the reports ($2?)?

Very disappointed with the current payment structure!

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da2baf7e 8b2b-432d-9271-242b3627ac70 on 05 Jul 2020 23:57:56

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does anybody know if MSFT has any feedback in terms of TRUE "FREE" reader license? most of my users are just read only consumer, having to pay pro license doesn't make sense, definitely impact adoption considering premium is way too pricy

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aefbdd9c 3625-42b7-a4fd-74e51627aa28 on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:01

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Same as other comments I see here : It's completely absurd that people who would like to just consult my reports would have to pay for it. non sense....

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40e0b62c 05b1-48cd-9a0e-f7229ad39dde on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:57

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pretty much everything every other comment here is saying. This is absurd that I cannot share live visuals with Free licenses.

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c2fed0c0 3968-413e-b81f-0b88fb19a536 on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:27

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Please add the ability to share reports with free users within the organization, it is absurd to pay 10$ for just viewing the report.

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8842164a efd9-46ab-afe3-3b0fec7fd1f2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:40

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My managers just want to see the reports I have published, why not allow pro users to share a report via Teams and SharePoint with out using the embedded code.