Handling build permissions vs role access

[Anonymous]

We have a golden dataset in production in a workspace. We have built multiple reports and pages and published them in various workspaces for different small group teams to work with. We want to give a broader audience view only access to the reports. Is there a way to do this without giving them build access to the dataset and without giving them higher than a reader role in their respective workspaces? 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

We were able to test and validate that you can grant Viewer permissions to dataset only in a workspace, and then also grant viewer permissions only, in a different workspace, that has reporting sourced from the dataset, and that user was able to see report and not able to change anything. 

[arvindsingh802]

Give Viewer access to all your user in your Golden Dataset workspace, it will only allow read access not the build, you can add build access for specific user/group on top of Viewer as well.

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