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Power BI Reporting on Project for the Web / Which permissions required for service account?
Hello, we're currently starting to use Project for the Web pilot-wise for single project management use cases. And as we're also using MS Project Online, we're thinking about enabling Project for...
It's not such a beginner question at all, Peter. I built my first app in Power Apps just so I could see the projects I created for myself in Pftw. Since then I've learned even MVPs are challenged to make sense of the project data world when looking at Dataverse and portfolios.
To understand the data side better, look to Azure and the Power Platform. You may want to use Power app widgets in Power BI to manage portfolios if you are not using the Portfolio function in Project Online.
- Thank your for the information, I hoped for some simple permissions modification, like, e.g. adding a service account "Project_Portfolio_Reader" to a pre-defined permission group like "Portfolio_Viewers" so that we can create transparency on all the Project for the Web-projects in the dataverse instance (be it for administrative purpose or real portfolio-management), because we're struggling with only seeing the projects the respective user connecting to the dataverse has created.
