Power BI Mobile Apps & Power BI Embedded

[jat75]

We have a workspace published as an app that is using Power BI Embedded A SKU. That app is shared to a Power BI Free user. That user cannot interact with the app through PowerBI.com, only through our embedded aplication, which is fine. 

During testing we found that the free user could use the Power BI mobile Android app and interact with our published Power BI app (this is a nice bonus!). But, if the same free user used the Power BI mobile iOS app, they could not interact with our published Power BI app. 

Why is there inconsistency between the mobile apps? Has anyone else experienced this?

[gabil]

Hi,

Can you clarify what you mean by "could use the Power BI mobile Android app and interact with our published Power BI app"?

Do you mean through Power BI.com as opposed to published app.

We aim to have consistency across OSs. Sometimes we do have gaps mainly due to release constraints.

Thanks,

Gabi

[jat75]

Hi Gabi - 

What I meant by "published app" was an app workspace published as a Power BI App. Then accessing the App on the Power BI mobile app by going to the "Apps" section.

Hope that clarifies. 

[gabil]

Hi,

In order to go to Power BI mobile apps and consume Apps you need the workspace to be hosted on a P capacity and not and A capacity (unless all users have Pro license). This is why I do not understand the mix up between embedded scenario (using A capacity) with Apps inside Power BI mobile.

Can you clarify the intention and customer scenario.

Thanks,

Gabi

[jat75]

Hi Gabi - that was our understanding too, but during the testing phase for a potential client scenario, we were able to use the Power BI mobile application to interact with Apps which were published from a workspace using A capacity. 

It's now working on the iOS app as well as the Android app (we turned the workspace off and on from using A capacity and then we could get access using the iOS app). Weird...

Since our experience is differing than what we've read and the documentation (that this should only be working with P, not A capacity), we're looking to confirm if this is supported or not before we go back to our client.

Thanks!

[gabil · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is a bug that we will be fixing in the coming sprints.

In order to use Apps in the SaaS scenario (web and mobile apps) you need to use either P SKU or pro licenses.

I hope this clarifies.

Thanks,

Gabi