What is Row-Level Security (RLS) in Power BI???
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Not sure what Row-Level Security (RLS) is in Power BI? Patrick gives you a quick look at what it's about and how to use it.
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Dude can I just take a moment to say how unbelievably grateful I am for your course content and how, on a daily basis, I refer to your videos to breach new grounds. Thank you times a mil, you're a role model
Me too. Gratitude
[Role] = "Model" (I agree, this content is the best there is for PBI)
Thanks for getting right to the point and not talking too much. I will definitely come back here for more Power BI content.
Appreciate that! We try our best.
This is bananas! Thanks for this lovely video on RLS. This will help tremendously on my current business use cases and hopefully implement this soon!
Great to hear Rodrigo! Love it!
I did a google search, you popped up and had a sigh of relief. Thanks!
Patrick this was so simply put. Thank you!
Always enjoy watching videos from you and Adam, i'm always learning!
Are you for real !? 😳 That was an amazing learning! ✨ Thank you Sir 🙏🏻❤️...
Love from India 🇮🇳
Great tutorial that's concise and gets straight to it. I'm likely to need to implement this feature, really helps being able to understand the functionality so quickly.
Thanks for this but can you also make a video to implement RLS from tables in database; which means all user entitlements are stored in tables in database and user access to be varied based on the user who logs in to Power BI service
Thank you Patrick! Great video and explanation. Just had this discussion today with a new user to explain RLS. Will definitely be sharing this with them.
You are the BEST. Thank you so much for always being so clear and thoughtful.
Thanks!
But Patrick, you forgot those we are using PBI Report Service! Can you do a video about it?
Another very helpful video saved to my favs. Thank you for making this informative but concise!
You are a life saver!
You guys are amazing!! Thank you 😘
Thanks Patrick. You make things fun. To any one reading this, I was wondering if you have come to a situation where you implement RLS on all of your reports (let say about 30). The RLS is set so that users assigned to site A Active Directory (AD) group can only see data for site A, users assigned to site B (AD) group can only see data for site B, and so on. The issue now is that when a new site C is open, then all reports need to be updated and assignments need to be done in the portal. Is there any good solution for something like this?
Thank you very much, i loved your explanation, easy and direct, i will sure follow you !!
Thanks for sharing your videos always enjoying to watch your videos
LOVE your videos! Very informative and easy to understand
Thanks for the informative video!
If Adam had access to France and Germany, would he get to see each one individually somehow where he could toggle between them, or would he see a summation of the two?
Thanks for sharing video on RLS.
Thank you Patrick for this video!!!
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LOVEE your videos. not sure why there is even one dislike here
Thank you so much bro helpful. from Hyderabad India.
What are the license requirements for user accessing this dashboard ?
your presentation skills are awesome
Thanks a lot for this great explanation 🙏🙏🌹
I have a question:
How to configure Report Server and assign users to the Roles?
Thank you so much, nice and simple!
Easy peasy! Thanks buddy
Thank you guys for the RLS videos and the course offering.
In my company we need security on measures like in OLAP and I was really sad that PowerBI doesn't support it. But I found some block posts where this got solved with a measure table + RLS + dax fomula. Do you have experience with that kind of solution? And better solution and would this be part of the course?
Thanks again for your videos. You really helped me get PowerBI rolling in our enterprise. Roll-Out is planned in 2 month *fingerscrossed*
OMG! Thank you ! May I please know if this will work when you import the filtered report into Power Apps? Will users view the report based on the filters in Power Apps?
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Hi Patrick, Can this also be applied on specific tabs?
Thanks this helps alot! but when I click on the options I do not have security, does this have something to do with my licensing?
I wished someone would make a video on RLS per user. We have over 1,000 branches and it is not feasible to create a role for each and everyone :(
Very useful video, thank you very much!
Thank You..
How description is changed from Sales from all countries to Sales from Germany?
Does row level security have to happen on individual reports or can you have a master table and incorperate it into other reports?
Does that user parameter always have to be an email address or does a numerical employee code works?
Great explanation!
Hey Patrick, Could you make a video on explaining the columns in Vertipaq of Power BI data model. More Specifically whats Cardinality, Dictionary, and a little about encoding. Thanks in advance.
This is very helpful! Is there any way to get rls to show what is filtering via a filter on a report page?
i really like your channel . thank you so much.
And If I have multiple pages where this filter can be applied , will it be applied to all pages?
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Yup. It's not as long as our other course.
Nice! Thank you!
Thank you for this video
patrick shall be able to do rls based on product categories and territories along page level rls in a single dashboard can you
I had the very question you mentioned. How do you apply RLS to apps?
What happens if a user is assigned multiple roles which are independent and cross filtering at the same time? will it work as AND or OR?
Wonderful. Thank you!
Hi how can you provide dynamic content in the manage roles section ?
First, thank you for all these awesome videos. Extremely helpful! Quick question though, I'd like to do something very similar to RLS, but not quite the same. Ideally, I'd like to setup a "scorecard" for my users, which is just a rank order list of everyone in a department, sorted by how they perform on a simple metric (e.g. a basic table). Very easy to do. However, I'd like my managers to see the full table, but each individual user, to see the table with the other people anonymized. For example, if I am ranked 3rd out of 5 of us, I'd like when I login to see 1) ***, 2) ***, 3) My Name, 4) ***, 5) ***. Is that possible? My understand is that RLS filters out all data I'm not granted access to, so in this instance if I tried to do this with RLS I'd just see 1) My Name. Thanks in advance for any input on how to do this! Again, love all that you guys are doing, keep it up!
Please release the administration course
thanks for sharing!
how much is the cost? I need to implement power bi and access control
Hey Patrick can you please make a video on how to "Refresh power bi to reflect renamed table name from data source to the report "
Hi, can you manage or configure the roles within PBI for the browser or is it desktop only?
Thanks Patrick! Small question...how do you select more than one country (e.g. Germany and France)?
You are the best!
can you make this video again for 2022? It seems you can only do this in desktop app now? Thanks!!
Do we need premium workspace to use RLS??
How would you make an admin bypass so they can see everything despite the security?
Thank you for your work brother, what if I have 200 users and for every individual I want to apply filter that would be so manual work , please advise .🙏
How we get usage metrics for embedded reports?
wonderful video Thank yo!
Many Thanks!
Patrick, amazing video !!! Thank you for that. But i have a question. The RLS does not work, for user outside my organisation. I want that my Colleagues from our subsidiary have access and just see "germany" data. How does this work. I hope you can help me. thank you a lot . Kind regards from Germany
First of all, let me say that you are a great source of inspiration! your channel is very helpful!
I have actually a question on RLS. I have created a report and created a rule in power bi desktop and published it on the power bi service. Everything is working fine, except for one user. No matter what I do with this user it keeps seeing all the data like if he is in the admin group, but he's not. I guess that he inherit authorization from a higher level that I can't see it in power BI. Do you know a way to debug this? Why is this user, with the same authorization level as is colleagues is viewing all data?
Thank you so much for helping me resolve this mystery!
Check the groups the user belongs to.
Hey man, do you have a video tutorial where A PowerBI report is created and connected to DEV environment, but once the solution is deployed to UAT, the dataverse in UAT should be use instead the DEV.
RLS is sorely missing the Default Role or Reader Role that everyone would be assigned by default when accessing the report.
Hi Patrick..
Any idea about passing user selected values to sql stored procedure.. I can achieve this in report builder but what about BI desktop?? Is there anyway to achieve this..
Nice video. But after you added the role Germany? Does the ceo which had not been added to a role yet at this point had access to every county sales? I think that he has no access at all until a new rol is created Whith the ceo in it which has all the country summed up in the [country]= ‘Germany’ formula?
If the CEO has access to the report without a role, they will see all the data in the report.
Hi Patrick,
Great video. I wanted to ask you; can row level security be applied to non Microsoft account (i.e. not present in active directory and have gmail and yahoo as email addresses) and can we share the reports to them. Thanks in advance
Hi Patrick, please, how can we share this within a power bi app with extarnal user without giving access to the data at all? Thank you
Amazing!!!
Thank you!
i love both of them..
I thought this was very hard to implement... But its easy!
How do I set up the logic for "contains" certain text?
Can we hide and show the page based on the roles defined in the report.
If this is possible so please let me know.
I want two views in a single report one that should show the general data for all and another view that should show the detailed data as well as general data at the same time please reply if you know the workaround.
can anyone say what are the types of RLS?
Patrick, I took the RLS course, and it was great, but I'm trying to implement it using a separate Dataset and report workspace. I set-up the dataset following the rules in PBI and then went to the service. I can't find a way to test whether the roles are actually filtered. Help.
Hi Patrick, I follow your videos that always easy and help to start a complex part as well.
I was working on RLS and wanted to apply RLS on the dataset which resides in another workspace. such as Report1 in Workspace A and Dataset1 in Workspace B. Both connected with live connections and found the RLS does not work in this scenario, any idea inputs on it?
Cool man. Thanks!
I want to pass the values of row level security using power bi embedded. This means, I want to pass dynamically the value of [Country] which can "Germany" or "USA" or "Canada".
"Germany" or "USA" or "Canada" will be set dynamically based on logged in user country through power bi embedded.
How can we do that ?
Hi Adam/Patrick, do you have any video's that cover the RLS but deploy to PowerBI Report Server on premises?
I don't think we have a specific video on that. For Power BI Reports, you can setup RLS the same way. Are you hitting a specific issue?
Hi Patrick, Why the Row-Level Security link is not showing on my Power BI Service?
After configuring RLS once, if we want to completely delete it, how can we do it?
It seems Patrick is huge fan of MARVEL 😊
Hi! Thanks for this video. Is it also possible to restrict access rights to the comments section? For example, if both user A and user B added comments to the dashboard, then they see only their comments and not of each other.
Can RLS users be provisioned programmatically via Power Automatei using Power BI embedded into an app? I have thousands of users who need to have RLS scoped data. Thanks.
Is it possible to create RLS for a live stream data in power BI? We cannot download a .pbix file for live stream so it looks impossible to create roles for live stream data. Any suggestions from you @Patrick?
How the title change from Sales for all countries to Sales for Germany?
Hai i want to take training for your class please
Thank you for this vedio
Hey Hi Patric! can we give this RLS even in publish to web????
i think it's not possible.
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-publish-to-web
Limitations
Publish to web is supported for the vast majority of data sources and reports in the Power BI service. However, the following kinds of reports aren't currently supported or available with Publish to web:
Reports using row-level security.
Thank a lot
Awesome👍
I suspect a different camera was used on this video