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synchronize copied reports
Hello community,
I have published one .pbix to workspace A, with all visuals. From this workspace A, I have copied the report to workspace B, and deleted some visuals.
In workspace B, I can see the copied report without another data set, which is what I want - it synchronizes the data perfectly. But how can I maintain this copied report with measures or visuals I change in the "master" report in workspace A?
Example given:
I add a new visual with a new measure to a report page. This does not appear in report in workspace B, even though when publishing the .pbix to workspace A, it tells me that this will influence 2 reports in 2 workspaces.
Am I missing something?
Thanks for your help
hahstag_pete
The copy of the report is independent of the parent report. It only shares the same datase (hence the message that publishing will influence the two reports). But the visuals are not synchronized at all.
The second report (the child report) then needs to be edited in the service so that you can add additional visuals.An alternative would be to build a separate report in PBI Desktop and consume the PBI Dataset as a data source.
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hashtag_pete Everything seems correct. You have a PBIX file with a dataset and report it sounds like. Then you have another report that has a Live connection to the dataset from the first report. So, when you update the dataset from the first report, it can possibly influence both reports which is the message you are getting. If you want the two reports to be completely independent of one another, then publish your dataset with a completely blank report page and have both reports be a live connection to the dataset.
The copy of the report is independent of the parent report. It only shares the same datase (hence the message that publishing will influence the two reports). But the visuals are not synchronized at all.
The second report (the child report) then needs to be edited in the service so that you can add additional visuals.An alternative would be to build a separate report in PBI Desktop and consume the PBI Dataset as a data source.
Hello both,
thanks for your answers. I think JirkaZ nailed it, even though it doesn't solve my problem.
The second (child) report should always be exactly as the parent report, minus those couple of visuals (that allow some GDPR sensitive insights). But I fear, I will have to do some double work in the future and maintain both reports when including new stuff. That is, until we finally have the page level security.
