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Hi All,
It would be great if you could help me with one of my query.
From power bI workspace, i created an app that i need to share with an external user. So by doing this, does that mean he will have access to share the app further with other folks.
If he shares it with other folks, will those folks have access to the app? or do they request access from App onwer or can external user himself grant access to app to those folks?
My requirement is to share the app with one external user & he should be able to share it with anyone he wants. Is there any specific permission i need to set while granting the access to external user.
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Hey @bi_devloper ,
these two articles explain everything about external sharing and how to onboard the external users to your Azure Active Directory.
Please be aware that accessing content has to be licensed, this does not change if external users are accessing content inside a Power BI app. There are three accessing content can be licensed for external users:
Hopefully, this helps to tackle your challenge.
Regards,
Tom
Hey @bi_devloper ,
you can't protect your pbix file!
If you want to sell content, you can consider to create a template app: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-template-apps-overview
Regards,
Tom
Thanks for providing very informative links.
Hey @bi_devloper ,
these two articles explain everything about external sharing and how to onboard the external users to your Azure Active Directory.
Please be aware that accessing content has to be licensed, this does not change if external users are accessing content inside a Power BI app. There are three accessing content can be licensed for external users:
Hopefully, this helps to tackle your challenge.
Regards,
Tom
Hi @TomMartens ,
I have created a Power BI report in a pro workspace and published as an app. I am sharing the report with external users outside my organization. Till last week the users were able to access the report and now from this week they are getting an error" Upgrade to Power BI Pro". Is there any solution so that the external users can access the report(even the free users). I could see that the premium capacity is costly.
Hey @bibinthomas ,
if a PRO workspace backs your data, all users need a license. You can provide external users with a PRO license. Free users can not access content inside a PRO workspace.
If you have more questions, please open a new thread.
Regards,
Tom
Hi @TomMartens ,
Thank you so much for your reply and providing very informative links. It answered almost all my queries except 1.
I also wanted to know if it is possible to somehow license a .pbix file? In other words if I sell a .pbix fille to customers how can I ensure that they can't simply share it with others? If I'm building a product, I just want to make sure that my code is not visible to anyone or if i can hide some piece of code.
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