Learn how to share a dashboard or report in Power BI. This week’s SharePoint & Office 365 Tips and Tricks shows how to check who has access to a dashboard or report you shared, and how to stop others from sharing the dashboard/report. Do you want to turn off resharing for a dashboard or report you have already shared? we have a solution for that too.
- Select Share in an open dashboard or report, or in a list of dashboards or reports.
- For distribution groups, individuals and security groups, enter full email addresses in the top box.
- Add a message if required.
- Enable Allow recipients to share your dashboard/report in order to allow your coworkers to share your content with others. It is called resharing.
- Click on Share.
How to check who has access to a dashboard or report you shared?
- You can also see who else have access other than the ones you shared the dashboard or report with.
- Select Share in an open dashboard or report, or in a list of dashboards or reports.
- Click Access from the Share dashboard/report dialogue box.
- People outside your organization with access to the report will be listed as guest.
How to stop others from sharing the dashboard/report?
- The Resharing feature allows others through the Power BI service and mobile apps. They can also forward the email invitation to anyone within the organization.
- Dashboard/report owners can turn on or off resharing.
- To turn off resharing before sending a sharing invitation, just uncheck the Allow recipients to share your dashboard/report.
- Find this option at the bottom part of the invitation dialogue box.
How to turn off re-sharing for a dashboard or report you have already shared?
- Select Share from the list of dashboards and reports, or in the dashboard or report itself.
- Click Access in the Share dashboard/report dialog box.
- Click on the ellipsis placed near to Read and reshare.
- Choose Read to allow the person to share the report or dashboard with others.
- Choose Remove access to keep that person from seeing the shared content at all. Choose necessary options in the Remove access dialogue box to complete the process.
Written by Alex K Joseph, Digital Marketing Strategist, Dock 365
Alex K Joseph is a digital marketing strategist at Dock 365 with deep expertise in content marketing and Microsoft technologies. His published work covers SharePoint administration, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, Microsoft 365 admin workflows, and Dynamics 365, the underlying platform that Dock 365's contract management software is built on. He has been writing for Dock 365 since 2021, producing technical content that helps SharePoint and Microsoft 365 administrators evaluate CLM solutions in the context of their existing Microsoft stack.


