Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI

Data security, wherein users or groups of users are prevented from viewing a portion of a semantic model, is often a top requirement in Power BI deployments. Security implementations can range in complexity from mapping a few security groups to their associated row-level security roles based on a single dimension value, such as department or region to user-based security involving DAX measures and user permission tables which retrieve the report user’s identity and filter the data model based on this identity, respectively.

Given the variety of use cases and the importance of this feature to securely share a semantic model across stakeholders, it is important to understand the process and techniques available to develop, test, and operationalize data security roles.

In addition to row-level security (RLS) roles, dynamic, user-based filter context techniques can also be used to simplify and personalize the user experience...