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Support Workspace Hierarchy

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Bob Mullaney on 22 Nov 2016 10:40:31

Support the ability to create a workspace under another one, inheriting it's permissions. Then allow this sub workspace to refine the permissions, etc.

If users have access to the parent and the child workspaces, then dashboards would support tiles from either location.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:07

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

Organizational hierarchy would help tremendously on many different fronts. Great idea!

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Stefan Castehav on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:05

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

Fix this, it is terrible working with this flat structure.

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Mimi on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:29

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A simple solution to our headache, guys. Appreciate if you could work on this. Thanks!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:06

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

Naming conventions to organize anything is a recipe for disaster. All it takes is a few misspellings, spaces, etc before it's a true mess, especially when you have many report writers. How is it that the concept of folders or a hierarchy eluded the designers of workspaces? On-prem ReportServer for PowerBI supports folders. Don't you want customers going from On-prem to an Azure service?

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Jon on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:21

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Another +1 here! Getting somewhat out of hand; Naming conventions only go so far.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:57:02

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

Very much needed. The UI is getting cluttered very quickly with no method to orginize properly.

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K V on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:19

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Just need a simple way to manage growing list of reports in a workspace

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David E on 05 Jul 2020 23:55:35

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Hierarchies or even display folders for separate workspaces would be very helpful. I had a recent conversation with a client who requested this due to the need to manage so many separate workspaces.

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Paul O'Connor on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:08

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

Very much needed enhancement.

My example is i have departments and have teams within them. Sharing to the department isnt appropriate, but the underlying dataset pulls everything for the department. if i could structure the Teams under the departments, i can push out access via the teams instead thus securing information more dynamically and specifically to access requirements. Especially under the new data protection laws (UK/EU) where you need to make sure you do not give access to those whom do not need it

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Tracy Ho-Paulson on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:16

RE: Support Workspace Hierarchy

I have 1 sales report for the whole sales team with row security set by the regions. There are multiple dashboards created for each region, but there is NO way to organize them by folders so they are quite messy! Please allow to create dashboard folders so I can group between 20-50 dashboards by Region.