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Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

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Cherie on 29 Feb 2020 03:06:05

Allow the viewer role to copy reports in a new workspace to another new workspace. I do not want to give the user contributor role because I do not want them contributing to the workspace but they can copy reports from the space and make them their own in spaces they have permissions to do so. I have given the viewer role user build and reshare permissions on the data set but it still does not allow them to copy the report to another workspace.

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Scott Reichley on 18 Apr 2023 15:19:38

RE: Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

I think this is bigger by having the ability for organizations to adjust the default role permissions. For example, some organizations might want to allow viewers to download reports from a workspace or save a copy to their personal workspace.

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Alfredo Lozano on 08 Feb 2023 16:34:18

RE: Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

We need a similar PowerBI User role for our Organization. This would need to be a "Consumer" role between Viewer and Contributor, where users can do everything as Viewers plus being able to "Save a Copy" of the report, without the "Edit" report option the Contributor role offers. Therefore, keeping the integrity of the original report.

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Rajesh Modi on 26 Sep 2022 15:26:09

RE: Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

Hi Cherie, Were you able to figure out a solution for this?I agree with you as i don't want users to be a contributor on my workspace and be able to publish in this workspace just to give them ability to copy a report to different workspace. I think this is a permissions flaw in PBI.

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Rajesh Modi on 26 Sep 2022 15:22:15

RE: Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

Hi Bobby,Are you saying if a user do not have access to workspace and i share a report with build permission, user can open the report through that link and then copy the report to a different workspace?Thanks in advance for your response.Raj

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Bobby Lam on 21 Sep 2022 07:28:56

RE: Copy reports permissions for viewer role in new workspace

The idea is to protect the workspace and its content from users - editing report or create multiple copies within this protected workspace. Hence a 'viewer' permission is given to all users. However, if edit/build permission is given at the report level, user should be able to directly access report from workspace and allow to save report their personal workspace.Currently this is only achievable if user access report via the URL generated by 'share' function, not directly from workspace.