# Prerequisites for Plan

This article lists *all* the required prerequisites, tenant settings, and capacity settings that must be configured to use Plan.

### Tenant settings

[Fabric administrators](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/roles) can grant access to these settings in the [admin portal](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/admin-center) under [tenant settings](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/tenant-settings-index).

1. This setting is **required** to create plan (preview) items: ***Users can create Plan (preview) items*****.** This should be enabled.

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2. Under [**Integration settings**](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/tenant-settings-index#integration-settings), ensure that **Allow XMLA endpoints and Analyze in Excel with on-premises semantic models** is enabled.

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3. Under [**Developer settings**](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/tenant-settings-index#developer-settings), ensure that **Embed content in apps** is enabled.

### Capacity settings

1. Semantic models used with Plan must be hosted on supported capacities, such as

   * **Power BI Premium capacities (P1, P2, and higher)**
   * **Microsoft Fabric capacities (F SKUs)**

2. Plan scenarios that rely on XMLA endpoints and embed tokens require supported **Microsoft Fabric capacities (F SKUs)** or **Power BI Premium capacities (P1–P5)**. Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium Per User (PPU) aren't supported for these scenarios. Some lower-capacity SKUs can also have XMLA and memory limitations that prevent supported usage.

3. In the Power BI Admin portal, under **Capacity settings**, ensure that the **XMLA Endpoint** setting is configured as **Read Only** or **Read Write**.

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### Semantic model connection owner permissions

The shared cloud connection owner, whether a user account or service principal, must have a workspace **Member** or **Admin** role.

### Database connections

#### Optional requirements

These are optional database connections that you can configure for specific scenarios such as collaboration and writeback.

1. Create and share a Fabric SQL database connection with report viewers so they can collaborate on the plan report. To know more, see [Create a database connection for collaboration](/planning-sheets/how-tos/create-a-database-connection-for-collaboration.md).
2. Create and configure writeback destinations if you want to write back the plan data. See [Configure writeback destinations](/planning-sheets/how-tos/persist-planning-data-using-writeback/configure-writeback-destinations.md) for more information.

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### Note

During Plan (preview) item creation, a Fabric SQL database is automatically created in your workspace. This database stores your plan report's metadata.
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