Turn off Explore this Data feature

[JohnNPBIUser]

Is there a way to turn off / disable the new feature, 'Explore this Data' when a user is viewing Power Web service and specifically viewing an app.  

[ibarrau]

Hi. I'm sorry but no. You can't turn that off. However, it's a preview feature, that means it's still been developed, things can changed in a near future. I suggest checking the docs to keep up to date: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/explore-data-service

I hope that helps,

[JohnNPBIUser]

thanks, my concern is that users are able to access data via Apps from the semantic model/dataset, which we might not want them to see so it would be really useful if we could disable this feature. 

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

The docs specify that you can only use it with build permission. You might want to take a look and check if you are sharing to users in the correct way. A regular viewer user, shouldn't have that permission.

Check the PowerBi App setting when sharing. At the last step under advanced settings there is something about this.

I hope that helps,