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Mastering Microsoft Power BI

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297233
Pages 638 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Brett Powell Brett Powell
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Preface 1. Planning Power BI Projects 2. Connecting to Sources and Transforming Data with M 3. Designing Import and DirectQuery Data Models 4. Developing DAX Measures and Security Roles 5. Creating and Formatting Power BI Reports 6. Applying Custom Visuals, Animation, and Analytics 7. Designing Power BI Dashboards and Architectures 8. Managing Application Workspaces and Content 9. Managing the On-Premises Data Gateway 10. Deploying the Power BI Report Server 11. Creating Power BI Apps and Content Distribution 12. Administering Power BI for an Organization 13. Scaling with Premium and Analysis Services 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Security roles

Per Chapter 1, Planning Power BI Projects, the required data security for this project is to limit the visibility of the Adventure Works sales team users to their respective sales territory groups. There are three sales territory groups (North America Sales Group, Europe Sales Group, and Pacific Sales Group), and, as described in the previous chapter, cross-filtering relationships exist between the Sales Territory dimension table, and all three fact tables (Internet Sales, Reseller Sales, and Sales and Margin Plan). Therefore, security roles with a filter condition on the given sales territory group will also filter the fact tables, and business users mapped to these roles will only see data associated for their Sales Territory group.

Security roles are defined in Power BI Desktop via the Manage roles dialog of the Modeling tab as shown in the following screenshot...

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