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pigsinblankets
Jan 17, 2023Copper Contributor
SharePoint List Access Permissions to use Online List in PowerBI
Good Afternoon, I have given a group e-mail direct access (read only) rights to a SharePoint list and have also shared a link to the list to this e-mail address given them view rights. They a...
christinepayton
Aug 10, 2023Iron Contributor
Are you trying to share a PBIX file or a published report? The Power BI connector for SharePoint uses resources at the top level of the site to "get" the list of lists to connect to, so it requires read access at the site level.
"Sharing links" do not work either, since the connection doesn't use the sharing link - so you were correct to give direct access.
"Sharing links" do not work either, since the connection doesn't use the sharing link - so you were correct to give direct access.