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404 Client Error - Export Report In Group
Hi ms_query
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When a report is cloned using the API or bound to a semantic model from another workspace, Power BI generates only metadata for the report in that workspace. No PBIX file is created or transferred in this process. This is why the report’s isFromPbix property is set to false.
Because there’s no PBIX file stored behind these reports in the workspace, that is why we are getting 404 error.
- Open the original report in Power BI Desktop and Publish it to your target workspace. that ensures the service has a true PBIX.
- If you need a PBIX file to export, open the report in the Power BI Service, go to File > Download this file (PBIX), save it to your computer, and then re-publish it to the workspace. This will create a proper PBIX file in the workspace that you can then export.
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Thank you.- Open the original report in Power BI Desktop and Publish it to your target workspace. that ensures the service has a true PBIX.
Thanks Anonymous for replying,
This is an odd behaviour which is not documented by Microsoft.
Even though the source report is from pbix file, but during the cross workspace cloning it losses the link to root pbix file and gets created by power-bi service.
And rest/REST is as expected.
Hi ms_query
Please look into below points.
- Re-upload or Re-publish the report in the target workspace.
- Download the .pbix of the cloned report.
- Open it in Power BI Desktop.
- Re-bind it to the dataset in my-workspace-id (if not already).
- Re-publish it to the same workspace.
- Try the export API again.
- Check for Dataset Binding
- Use the Get Report In Group API to confirm that the report is correctly bound to the dataset in my-workspace-id.
- Export API Permissions
- Ensure your service principal or user has Report.ReadWrite.All permission AND access to both:
- The workspace (my-workspace-id)
- The report (especially if it’s cloned — permissions don’t always carry over properly)
- datasetId matches a dataset in the same workspace
- reportType is PowerBIReport
- You’re not seeing fields like isFromPbix = false (which might indicate cloning)
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Thank you.