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Advocate IDeployment pipeline: Selective deployment via API
Hi kdoherty , Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.
Deployment pipelines in Microsoft Fabric do not have any built-in capability to detect what has changed between stages. The Deploy stage content API can deploy everything in the workspace or a list of item IDs that you explicitly provide, but Fabric itself does not expose any way to compare source and target stages, track versions or identify which reports or semantic models were modified. Because of this, pipelines behave as full promotion mechanisms rather than incremental ones. If you want to deploy only a single changed report, the pipeline has no way to determine that automatically, you must already know which items changed and pass only those item IDs to the deployment call.
In practice, this means selective deployment requires external change tracking, such as source control (PBIP + Git) or a release process that records which artifacts were modified. Without that external context, redeploying all items is the way of Fabric deployment pipelines today.
Super UserHi kdoherty I would like to think that internally MSFT has already an API interface like "getDifferencesBetweenWorkspaces" or something, and I think internally becuase there is not something like open to the Public, so, I'm not offering a solution, but a possible approach.
if I were you and this would be just to critical that justifies my time & effort to implement, I will call first the API interface Items - List Items to get all the items within your source workspace, and then, call API interface Items - Get Item Definition and get the defintiion for each item in the workspace and then, do the same with the target workspace List items > For each Item Get Definition and compare source vs target JSON files! Taking in cosideration that the .platform are expected to be different just because of different Id's, among a big list of thing to consider.
In conclusion:
#1. Is there an API interface that gives you that? - No (perhaps it will be a good idea, to register as an Idea 😅💡)
#2. Is it's possible with current API intrerfaces? - Yes, but requieres some heavy coding.
#3. Would the benefit to do this outwages the work required? - Entirely up to you 😊
If you find another way, DO LET ME KNOW! I would be so interested in knowing how! For the time being, wish you best of lucks and hope at least this gives you some new ideas. A thumb's up for this info would be nice and even better if you mark as solution. Cheers.
kdohertyThanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.