Is there a way to embed a Looker Studio report so it runs strictly under the owner’s credentials?

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We have a Looker Studio report where certain charts render correctly when accessed under the report owner’s Google account. We are exploring whether there is a supported way to embed the report on our website so that all data queries execute strictly under the owner’s credentials. (For additional context, the underlying issue isn’t related to misconfigured data permissions.)

Our goal is to have clients view the embedded report without making the report fully public.

Is there any configuration in Looker Studio (free or Pro), including SDK embedding, that allows embedded reports to consistently execute under the owner’s credentials rather than the viewer’s authentication context?

If not, what is the closest supported approach within Looker Studio’s authentication mode.

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Hi @Mavnnylopez No Looker Studio does not support forcing embedded reports to run strictly under the owner’s credentials; queries execute based on the data source’s credential mode (Owner’s credentials or Viewer’s credentials), so the closest supported approach is to configure each data source to use Owner’s credentials and share the report privately with specific users (or via authenticated embedding in Pro), but fully anonymous embedding under only the owner’s auth context is not supported.