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Phil_PowerBI
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Slicer Values not getting passed to a Role

I have successfully created a role in Power BI to control access to the content of my report using the DAX script below:

 

SWITCH(

       TRUE(),

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Full Access", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Standard Access", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Limited Access" && [SecuredOfficeGroupAccessType] = "See Data of All Office Groups", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Limited Access" && [SecuredOfficeGroupAccessType] <> "See Data of All Office Groups", DimOriginatingOffice[Office Group] = [SecuredOfficeGroup],

       1=1

       )

 

I have now been told that under some conditions, it would be great if they can turn the role on and off. I have created slicer with two values to handle this – Secured and Unsecured.I also created a Measure to capture the selected value of the slicer as shown below:

 SecuredMode = SELECTEDVALUE('Report Mode'[ReportMode])

 

I then simply wrapped a simple IF statement around my DAX to handle this as shown below:

 

IF ([SecuredMode] = "Secured",

SWITCH(

       TRUE(),

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Full Access", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Standard Access", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Limited Access" && [SecuredOfficeGroupAccessType] = "See Data of All Office Groups", 1=1,

       [SecuredAccessType] = "Limited Access" && [SecuredOfficeGroupAccessType] <> "See Data of All Office Groups", DimOriginatingOffice[Office Group] = [SecuredOfficeGroup]

             ), 1=1)

 To my surprise, it appears that my slicer selection does not get recognised as no matter how many times I change the selection, my role expression always resolve to the default value of my IF statement.

 

 

Is this a limitation in POWER BI or am I doing something wrong?

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v-yulgu-msft
Employee
Employee

Hi @Phil_PowerBI,

 

No. It is not possible to dynamically turn on/off the RLS based on a slicer selection.

 

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-yulgu-msft
Employee
Employee

Hi @Phil_PowerBI,

 

No. It is not possible to dynamically turn on/off the RLS based on a slicer selection.

 

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you for the confirmation. I just wanted to be sure there was niothing I was doing wrong.

Phil_PowerBI
Frequent Visitor

I have done further tests to prove that the slicer value is blank within the role. Outside the role on the report, the slicer value gets passed correctly.

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