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Developer mode & git for reports with live connection
Hi RuiRomanoMS
Maby im missing somethhing but i dont understand how this could be by design. If the architecture suggests to separate workspaces for semantic models and reports. You could never use GIT integration for the report part as it is now?
Is there a workaround for this or should we live with the fact that reports connected to a semantic model in a separate workspace can´t be git connected?
When reports and semantic models live in different workspace there is no problem, the byConnection will be preserved when exporting to Git.
Only when both report and semantic live in the same workspace, when exporting to git because they are in the same workspace the definiton.pbir of the report will be by default as a relative byPath connection.
Maybe worth adding an override option that always uses absolute addressing.
But it's still a problem that it's impossible to properly work with reports with a Live connection while integrating them in Git.
To be honest, I don't care about why.
The fact is that it's a pain.
Thanks RuiRomanoMS for the reply.
Maby its a separate error then.. I have created a simple report connected to a semantic model in development stage and then, save it as a PBIP, push it to development branch in origin and try to sync the branch in my report workspace i get the following error.
I have used the connect to PBI Semantic model connector.
its only a small table in the report.
The definition file does indeed validate what you said so i guess that looks good?
Hi D_Lav
I didn't check the definition file in such detail.
But I got a different effect.
The synced report works without any issues.
But I cannot edit it in Power BI Desktop after syncing it back from Git.
Perhaps it's the same cause.
I don't know.
Hi Anonymous
I tried that now aswell. If i publish the report to the workspace with a connection to a semantic model in separate workspace. I can sync the content to git from workspace but not the other way around.
And the reports dont work in pbi desktop after. So same effect as you.
This seem to wonky to work with in real life..
Are you connecting to a semantic model in "My Workspace"? Or to Azure/SQL Analysis Services?
Hi RuiRomanoMS
im connecting to a semantic model in a power bi service workspace (App workspace and not in my personal workspace) which is on a premium capacity if that helps. Using connector "Power BI Datasets"
