Report parameters

DataTako allows you to dynamically filter your PowerBI report data based on which user or user group accesses the report.

Open a report configuation and scroll to the ‘shared with’ section. Below a screenshot of a report that has been shared with the ‘management team’ user group. If you expand the group, you’ll see an add parameter + button.

Power BI requires quite a specific annotation for parameters, more on that in the Microsoft documentation.

Lets say we have the following entity and fields in Power BI:

If we would want to filter in a staffgroup called ‘Development’. We need to enter the following in DataTako:

Parameter name: StaffGroups/Group

Parameter type: Can be string, date or integer

Parameter value: The specific value that you want to filter on.

You may have multiple have parameters per group or per invidiual user.