Set or remove sensitivity labels using Power BI REST admin APIs

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To meet compliance requirements, organizations are often required to classify and label all sensitive data in Power BI. This task can be challenging for tenants that have large volumes of data in Power BI. To make the task easier and more effective, you can use Power BI admin REST APIs to programatically setLabels and removeLabels on large numbers of Power BI artifacts.

The APIs set or remove labels from artifacts by artifact ID.

Requirements and considerations

  • Users must be Fabric administrators to call these APIs.
  • The admin user (and the delegated user, if provided) must have sufficient usage rights to set or remove labels.
  • To set a sensitivity label using the setLabels API, the admin user (or the delegated user, if provided) must have the label included in their label policy.
  • The APIs allow a maximum of 25 requests per hour. Each request can update up to 2000 artifacts.
  • Required scope: Tenant.ReadWrite.All

API documentation

Sample

The following sample demonstrates how to set and remove sensitivity labels on Power BI dashboards. Similar code can be used to set and remove labels on semantic models, reports, and dataflows.

            const string adminBearerToken = "<adminBearerToken>";
            const string ApiUrl = "<api url>";
            var persistedDashboardId = Guid.Parse("<dashboard object Id>");
            var credentials = new TokenCredentials(adminBearerToken, "Bearer");

            var artifacts = new InformationProtectionArtifactsChangeLabel();
            artifacts.Dashboards = new List<ArtifactId> { new ArtifactId(id: persistedDashboardId) };

            using (PowerBIClient client = new PowerBIClient(credentials))
            {
                client.BaseUri = new Uri(ApiUrl);

                // Delete labels

               var removeResponse = client.InformationProtection.RemoveLabelsAsAdmin(artifacts);

                foreach (var updateLabelResult in removeResponse.Dashboards)
                {
                    if (updateLabelResult.Status == Status.Succeeded)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"label has been deleted from artifact {updateLabelResult.Id}");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"label has not been deleted from artifact {updateLabelResult.Id}");
                    }
                }

                // Set labels

                var setLabelRequest = new InformationProtectionChangeLabelDetails();
                setLabelRequest.Artifacts = artifacts;
                setLabelRequest.LabelId = Guid.Parse("<label Id>");

                // assignmentMethod (optional)
                setLabelRequest.AssignmentMethod = AssignmentMethod.Priviledged;

                // delegetedUser (optional)
                var delegatedUser = new DelegatedUser();
                delegatedUser.EmailAddress = "<delegated user email address>";

                setLabelRequest.DelegatedUser = delegatedUser;

                var setResponse = client.InformationProtection.SetLabelsAsAdmin(setLabelRequest);
                foreach (var updateLabelResult in setResponse.Dashboards)
                {
                    if (updateLabelResult.Status == Status.Succeeded)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"label has been upsert on artifact {updateLabelResult.Id}");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine($"label has not been upsert on artifact {updateLabelResult.Id}");
                    }
                }

            }

        }

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