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    Berndt Hamboeck on 09 Sep 2016 13:56:01

    A new button in Power BI Desktop where one can lock (or unlock) the editing of the report. The ideas is that the tiles can not be moved any more and the Visualization and Fields tabs on the right side are closed by default. This will make it easier to give the report to users within the company who are scared to destroy the report, but just want to look at it.

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    766a526c 2741-4adc-be11-7abce3e665be on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:34

    RE: Reader Viewer Mode

    And if possible, also provide the visualization on a webpage, so that we can evaluate the same way users will see the report on PBI Service.

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    0ba368cb 7106-47ef-b1bc-14fc24a09121 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:07

    RE: Reader Viewer Mode

    Absolutely agree - Ideally we'd share via PowerBI Web - but unfortunately our business does not want us publishing data to the service, but we still make use of the Desktop Tool and share the pbix files.
    For many users though the tool is a little daunting, so a simpler 'reader' tool (or just reader mode), such as Tableau Reader would be valuable.