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brunozanoelo
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How to copy/paste RLS from one pbix. to another?

Hello,

How can I copy and paste all the Rules that I have in one .pbix file to another? Every release that I made I need to recreate my RLS into the new .pbix file, this is insane.

Best Regards,
Bruno

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HI @brunozanoelo ,

In fact, power bi does not limit the role amount of RLS. So for your requirements, you can create different roles and assign roles to your users. 
For instance, you have 10 users and they need to be filtered by their usernames, you need to hard code 10 roles for each user. If you create a dynamic username role, you can use one role on all users. (RLS with username can be used to reduce role amount of similar user roles)

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
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maryurisar
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Hi, there was any news about this topic? Is possible to copy de rls to another pbix?

parry2k
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@brunozanoelo I would recommend to create a template file with all RLS rules in it and use template file to start new report so that it contains all the RLS rules.



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@parry2k  Hi, I´m already doing this, but I have customers that doesn´t have RLS so every improvement that I make, I need to copy the .PBIX file (and rename him as "WITH RLS") and recreate all my RLS. Is ridiculous, Microsoft should put this on  the service side as it was.

Hi @brunozanoelo ,

In fact, I already try to open pbix file with compression software and review each file but I can't find out correspond files who stored RLS formulas. (I think they may be encrypted or stored in data model which not able to open)

It sounds like your report has lots of RLS roles that are hard to migrate them to a new pbix file.  If this is a case,  I'd like to suggest you set a dynamic user filter based on username function, it should help to reduce RLS role amount. (e.g. simple username mapping to filter related tables or complex filter based on username correspond fields)

RLS with UserName() 

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Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
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@v-shex-msft  one question:
Some of my customers don´t use RLS, so this idea os RLS using groups will still work for me? Some of my users inside my table should see all the data. This is possible? IF the logon user don´t meet the USERNAME() it will appear all the data from my pbix?

 

HI @brunozanoelo ,

In fact, power bi does not limit the role amount of RLS. So for your requirements, you can create different roles and assign roles to your users. 
For instance, you have 10 users and they need to be filtered by their usernames, you need to hard code 10 roles for each user. If you create a dynamic username role, you can use one role on all users. (RLS with username can be used to reduce role amount of similar user roles)

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
If this post helps, please consider accept as solution to help other members find it more quickly.

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