Lets you preview a report as some RLS role, several roles together, or a named individual, inside the Power BI service. Your own identity drives dynamic rules, and DirectQuery models using SSO can't use this feature.
Also called View as.
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Terms in this definition
- RLS
Row-level security: filtering the data each person can see down to permitted rows. Power BI models apply it through DAX rules on roles, which bind just Viewers and anyone holding Read or Build; Fabric Warehouse instead uses a T-SQL policy that calls a predicate function.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- Power BI service
Power BI's browser-based SaaS component: people publish and share reports and semantic models there, create dashboards and apps, and set up scheduled data refreshes.
- IDENTITY
A column property, written IDENTITY(seed, increment), that gives each new row the next number in a rising sequence. SCOPE_IDENTITY reports the latest value created in the current scope, and a rolled-back transaction still uses up the numbers it took.
- DirectQuery
Power BI connection mode in which reports fetch data from the source in real time; Direct Lake outperforms it.
- SSO
Signing in once to gain access to multiple applications.
Related terms
- Usage rights
Rights handed out by encryption, for example through a sensitivity label. For Copilot or an agent to return encrypted content, a person needs VIEW as well as EXTRACT (copy).