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jaryszek
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1 year ago
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Power BI Versioning

Hi Guys,

i found possibility to version semantic models in power bi service:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/service-semantic-model-version-history#open-the-version-history-pane

 

but what about reports versioning? 
How youare handling it within your companies?
What is a workflow?

Best,
Jacek

  • Deku's avatar
    Deku
    1 year ago

    Create in pbix

    Save as pbip

    Commit and stage changes to git

    Push to remote repo

    Deploy with git integration connected to workspace, or with fabric APIs

     

    Details on processes and options here

     

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/projects/ 

     

    If you want to work with bpix files you would best off using SharePoint as saving files on top of other provides a list of versions.

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  • Deku's avatar
    Deku
    Super User

    Pbip format and git, to keep track of history. Deploy via fabric APIs, git integration or manually with desktop.

    In public preview so would be careful. TMDL is fine and stable, PBIR is still buggy for some edge cases, like losing tagging that a page is tooltips. If you don't use pbir you can go back from pbip to pbix

    • jaryszek's avatar
      jaryszek
      Super User

      Thnak you very much. 

      What about doing descriptions and enumarating version in Power Bi ? pbix with specific version is published and git description with version also (or git tag)?

      Best,
      Jacek

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        Deku
        Super User

        You can keep a changelog.md in the repo or just rely on commit messages. Also can a have a parameter in model with version number, which you increment.l with version bumps. Would use tag to take specific commits that represent a version bump

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      jaryszek
      Super User

      One more thing, 

      "PBIR is still buggy for some edge cases, like losing tagging that a page is tooltips" --> what does it mean exactly? 

      Opening pbix from it will be not working like it should and loose tagging?

      Best,
      Jacek

      • Deku's avatar
        Deku
        Super User

        If you publish a report that has a page tooltip. The tick on the page that specifies it as a tooltip gets lost while publishing with API