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Advocate I

1 year ago

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Fabric Capacities & PBIP & compatibility with PowerBI Rest API

Hi all

We are now on the PBI embedded capacities using Powerbi Rest APIs to deploy our products ( held now in PBIX) Power BI REST APIs for embedded analytics and automation - Power BI REST API | Microsoft Learn

We want to move to use PBIP format, GIT integration and Fabric capacities but we will need to do a fair amount of custom deployments so via APIs.

From what I was reading PBIP can be deployed only using fabric APIs and Fabric capacities also only work with fabric APIs.

Is that correct or is there a backwards compatibility with the (older) PowerBI rest APIs?

Deku
1 year ago
I've only used the pbi API via pbitools
Fabric API have been mostly painless. No problems with TMDL, some funny edge cases with PBIR. If you stick with report.json and model.bim you should be fine

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Deku
Super User
1 year ago
Power BI API only works with phix. Pbip can be deployed with fabric API or git integration. This can be on a P or F capacity, not tested with A sku but assume would still be fine. While the Fabric API have the Fabric name, they are not limited to Fabric, but instead are design to accommodate the idea of dealing with all the different item types that can be created in Fabric, and therefore are more abstracted that the Power BI ones
ducky
Advocate I
1 year ago
Deku - thanks ! Thats what I was expecting.
Have you dealt before with a switch from the PBI API for PBIX to Fabric API and PBIP ?
Wondering if there are anything that is critical to know before starting such a transition.
- Deku
  Super User
  1 year ago
  I've only used the pbi API via pbitools
  Fabric API have been mostly painless. No problems with TMDL, some funny edge cases with PBIR. If you stick with report.json and model.bim you should be fine
  - ducky
    Advocate I
    1 year ago
    thats interesting about PBIR. Mind if I ask you what were those edge cases?

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