4 nordic
12-13 April, 2024

Days of Knowledge Nordic 2024

Days of Knowledge is a Directions for Partners event focused on educating consultants and developers, sharing knowledge and upgrading Business Central professionals to enable quality customer solutions. Training and acquiring knowledge are the magic words at Days of Knowledge.

 

13-04-2024

Implementing VLS (Visual-Level Security) in Power BI

13:45 - 14:30 26 Back to event schedule

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to implement varying access rights by visual? You’ve surely heard of RLS and therefore you know that a single given user can have just one role at a time, so just one scope of data access per user per report will work. But how do you tackle a use-case, when the same user should have visibility into: - only his/her region in one visual and the whole country in another visual. - detailed sales data for his/her region in one visual and an aggregated finance data in another visual. There may be some thoughts on how to address this challenge already lingering through your mind: a duplicate (likely aggregated) data model, leveraging OLS (Object-Level Security), creating another page with the aggregated data and restricting access to it by conditionally displaying a page navigation menu. While all of these methods do work to a certain extent, they also feature trade-offs and limitations e.g. introducing redundancy to the model, not being the most user-friendly, intuitive or robust. During this session I’ll introduce you to another method of solving the said use-case: the VLS. This technique doesn’t come with any of the drawbacks mentioned before. I’ll first cover the concept behind VLS and explain how to implement it during a live demo. You will also learn a number of use-cases that can be tackled with it. Finally, I will go through a few potential pitfalls in VLS and how to work around them. After this session you will: - understand the concept behind VLS. - be able to implement VLS in a number of scenarios. - know good and best practices when working with VLS. It would be great if prior to attending this session you would have a general understanding of RLS, DAX and tabular models.

Speakers:

Greg Strzyminski

Power BI Consultant & Trainer, Senior BI Developer at Kearney

Grzegorz (feel free to call him Greg) is a Senior BI Developer at Kearney Warsaw. He serves as a Power BI technical Team Lead for the Business Intelligence team in Poland. He has proved his lecturing and teaching skills by running Power BI community events as well as internal trainings at Kearney at all levels, ranging in audience size from 5 to 250. Greg has been leading a number of Power BI workshops aimed at experienced professionals, students as well people willing to explore the art of possible in Business Intelligence. He has experience at conveying his knowledge at various levels, ranging from beginner to expert. Greg holds a number of Microsoft Certifications including Power BI - related ones: PL-300, DA-100 and 70-778.