I have searched for a while, and tried a number of recommendations, but cant seem to find an answer that works for me. Hopefully someone here can help.
Here is the scenario:
I have a site where my users register with their own email address (hotmail, gmail, company, etc) and are then able to access reporting inside of my site.
Historically, I have been building bootstrap reporting into PHP pages. The results are nice looking but turnaround time for new reports is less than ideal and the complexity of reports has been increasing.
Enter PowerBI. Not quite as pretty but I can now turn around new reports with a higher level of complexity quite quickly.
Using PowerBI "Embed"/"Publish to web (public)" I have Embedded the report into my PHP page with minor seams (not seamlessly by any means) but I don’t like the risk of exposing the data outside. It also isn't allowing my users to easily download their data.
I tried using PowerBI "Embed"/"Website or portal" but it seems to want the user authenticated in PowerBI. If I signed into my site I could see the embedded report load but if I did an "In Private" session and didn't first log into PowerBI I couldn't see the report. I don’t want to make my users have another method of authentication in order to see the reports.
I have tried putting the report in a "My workspace" and in a custom Workspace. I have also made sure the "Tenant settings" for "Publish to web" are set to "Enabled…".
I did the thing where I create an app, which you then approve to use the data. I wish I could remember where I did that but it also didn’t seem to help.
I activated the "Pro trial" thinking maybe that had something do with it but haven't really gotten any further. Maybe I dont even need the Pro license.
My assumption would be that I could get a code, or code snippet, that would then use a token to authenticate my approved page/site with PowerBI. The report would then render based on the page token/auth, not that of my user (who doesn’t have anything to do with PowerBI).
I am guessing me using PHP might be part of the challenge here but I am sure someone else has been through this.
What am I missing? Is anyone able to help or direct me to an article I missed?