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REST API for managing roles of datasets

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Tamás Vidó on 27 Apr 2016 20:56:42

Row-level security enabled by roles for datasets feature released in March 2016. is great but a manual process. It should be enabled via Rest API too. That would allow synchronization of user roles with custom applications automatically.

Administrator on 21 Jun 2022 07:26:05

We’ve acknowledged it and we want to do it but we don't have a timeline to share yet

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:29

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

D'oh! Not having this feature is causing us major pain. Please implement ASAP.

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Renvaldas Mackevicius on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:43

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

'k (Admin, Microsoft Power BI) commented · May 17, 2016 20:08 · Flag as inappropriate
Thanks for the feedback. We're discussing this internally and once we have an update we'll circle back. We definitely wanted to start by making sure that we got the feature rock solid and then we'll move into providing other ways of managing/configuring this!

Cheers,
jono



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Hendrik Venter on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:34

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

Any update on this? How do you bump this requirement?
This is a major issue for us as ISV in multi-tenant environment. This has been flagged in 2016 already, Disappointing there's been no feedback from MS, we might just sway to drop Power BI and go with another analytics vendor.

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vtcoder on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:14

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

The lack of this feature ended up being a deal breaker for a project I was working on. The manual process is just not secure/reliable in a multi tenant environment.

Hoping this is available soon - thanks

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Veronica Farrelly on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:43

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

I have a large number of roles to meet our security requirements and it's very painful to manually manage them

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Hendrik Venter on 05 Jul 2020 23:57:58

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

Any update on this? The REST API's allows you to do most other things (however mundane some of it is) this is a potential blocker for us using PowerBI embedded with controlling role access. This idea was raised in 2016!

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Yana.be on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:27

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

I was manually tracking this for a client and had a whole process built around it. This has to have an automated tool otherwise mistakes are made and data is exposed. Would love to see it implemented!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:01

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

This would save us a lot of operational pain, add value to to Power BI running in an ISV app, and just generally needs to be a thing

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PJ Evans on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:50

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

Insane this isn’t available. I guess we have to manually track all of this in its own table just to keep up with the changes users are requesting.

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Marcin Korwek on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:30

RE: REST API for managing roles of datasets

Hello, any update on this feature?