use filters with apps

[buildbod]

I'm exploring the Apps model in PowerBI as I understand it will become the method for distributing dashboards and reports. I'd like to set a series of apps up and connect them to a single instance of a report (rather than creating clones of the reports for specific apps as that seems wasteful).

I'd like to set the link used in the app to pass a groupid as a report filter. That way I can create a handful of apps each using a common report but providing a different filtered view. I can then use the Apps model to restrict permissions to the visibility of report data.

I've seen in the PowerBI community that Row Level Security could be an approach.

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Need-to-filter-Dashboard-for-25-different-Departments/m-p/38...

Question is what is best?

Has anyone in the community set something like this up?

[Seth_C_Bauer · Accepted solution]

@buildbod If the whole reason for your idea is to manage the filter context for different groups of people on the same report, then I would highly recommend that you go with Row Level Security.

You could create 1 report and have 1 shared app that contains the report shared with all the people...

The idea that you outline is not currently possible, which is another reason to go with a proven and supported feature like RLS.

[buildbod]

Thank you I'll try RLS then