Adding a column or measure formula that tests the RLS role of a viewer

[JWBennett]

Have Dynamic RLS working fine. Howerver ran into a situation where I would like to add column content based on the RLS role of the current user.  I have two Roles: Admin and Delegate.  How do I add content to a column only if the viewers role is "Admin"? 

[parry2k]

Not understood your request fully but based on your input, you already implemented RLS and have the way to define who is admin. You can use the same in a measure with if condition.

My Measure = IF([User is Admin], "value")

[JWBennett]

I guess I was not clear. I don't want to know 'who' is an Admin.  I want to know the Role of the Viewer.  It will have to be a DAX Measure I expect.  If it exists at all.

Scenario is This:

• I have two roles defined: Admin and Business Unit (BU)
• The Admin role is unrestricted. Admin viewers see all data elements in all reports.
• The BU role is restricted by email address to a BU Affiliation table. Viewers see only data for their BU. Works just fine
• I have some instructions, contact info, etc. that is different for a BU viewer than it is for an Admin. So I'd like to have a simple method to test the Role of the current Viewer so I may filter the information accordingly.

[v-juanli-msft]

Hi @JWBennett

Do you follow this article to set RLS?

As you said, "I don't want to know 'who' is an Admin", to make RLS work well, you need define each role with your rule.

To test a role,

You can go to Power BI Service,

1. Select the ellipse (…) for a dataset.
2. Select Security
3. Select the ellipsis (...) next to the role.
4. Select Test data as role

You will then see reports that are available for this role

You can test other roles, or combination of roles, by selecting Now viewing as.

You can choose to view data as a specific person, or you can select a combination of available roles to validate they are working.

 

Best Regards

Maggie