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Be able to easily switch between accounts

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Simon Sabin on 08 Mar 2016 20:26:28

Would like to be able to easily switch between different organisational accounts. As an ISV I support multiple customers with multiple logins, switching between them all is a RPITA.

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Jeff Taylor on 09 Aug 2023 20:57:40

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

Yes! We need to be able to switch like we do with Azure Portal without having to log out.

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Nicolas Cirnigliaro on 14 Dec 2021 09:44:28

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

This is also a security feature, to avoid publishing reports on wrong tenants.

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Jim Odom on 10 Jul 2020 17:21:58

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

Me too

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Erik on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:14

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

Related, there should be a command line switch for this. So that I can have shortcuts for launching PBI desktop for each of my customers.

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Osman Beyaztas on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:56

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

It's very annoying to log out and log in to check reports from another account...
Espescially when you need ot develop dashboard/reports for different customers

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:32

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

This is critical for larger organizations and consultants.

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Olivier Travers on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:34

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

At a minimum, PBI Desktop should manage Switch Account just like Office apps, i.e. remember accounts and credentials. This is very convenient when you load/save Excel files to Onedrive for Business.

I'd also love to be able to associate specific PBIX files with user accounts, so that opening a client file switches me to their account.

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ankit patira on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:18

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

This is required in big time for us as well. As a consultant you work on multiple client projects and it would be very useful to switch between accounts

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Scott Stamper on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:44

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

Huge need for us! We drive adoption at a variety of clients. Not being able to see which account I am logged into is bad enough! But I really need to be able to switch easily between accounts as well.

Thanks! Scott

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jerome P on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:10

RE: Be able to easily switch between accounts

as a consulting guy, I agree. I have to manage multiple clients and they are switching to Power BI. start to be hard to demonstrate the Cortana integration from my laptop or phone.