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Miles Cole on 07 Mar 2019 02:57:43

Just like outstanding requests to assign app/workspace permission at a folder level within the app, we need to be able to give some users access to just individual dataflows without giving them access to the entire workspace that the dataflows are contained in.

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Simon on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:19

RE: Dataflow Permissions

This is a requirement. Consider the following:

I am a data source owner and I want to democratize my data. I have been given a single Premium workspace and I would like to use it to triage dataflows to dataset developers spread across the organization. I create two dataflows:

1) HR DF
2) Ops DF

How do I share HR DF with HR so that the Ops folk cannot see it?

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Jack Wells on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:58

RE: Dataflow Permissions

This has come up recently for me. I have a dataflow in my division that it would be helpful to share with another team, but I don't want to share my whole workspace with them so they can access it. Indeed, they don't even need to see the whole dataflow, just a portion of it.

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Adam S on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:25

RE: Dataflow Permissions

This is one place power bi is really lacking. It great that Microsoft is trying to make information more accessible but there are data security structures that need to be supported. Not everyone should be able to see all data from a data sources, I should be able to have one master Dataflow which pulls all the data from a system, and then parse it into sub-flows based on what information each contributor\member is permitted to have access to.

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Hilko on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:16

RE: Dataflow Permissions

Great suggestion! Now it seems I have to create different Workspaces each containing different Dataflows in order to control the access to them....

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