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afbraga66
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2 years ago
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Thin Reports and Git Integration

Hey,   So I have an issue. I've got a report that is connected to a dataset in power bi service through live connection aka thin report. Whenever I save changes and push them into the repository ...
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  • Jannematz's avatar
    Jannematz
    2 years ago

    How does the definiton.pbir of your report look like?

    {
  "version": "1.0",
  "datasetReference": {
    "byPath": {
      "path": "../DatasetName.Dataset"
    },
    "byConnection": null
  }
}

    like this it should work if your dataset is in the same repo.

    If it is not: Check for spaces in the byConnection url in the defintion.pbir. The service does not like those and replaces them wiith %20. So you need to URL encode your connection strings in the thin reports.

    I hope this helps!

GilbertQ's avatar
GilbertQ
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2 years ago

Hi afbraga66 

 

I would expect this to work.

 

If it is changing it to an import to me that is an issue that needs to be resolved.

afbraga66's avatar
afbraga66
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2 years ago

Hey GilbertQ 

That's why I wanted to ask the community, since thin reports are one of the development strategies mentioned by Microsoft. It seems strange to me not seeing anyone mentioning this subject.

If you or others have the chance to test it as well it would be great.

While this doesn't make using versioning an impossibility, it is one for the use of git and deployment pipelines.

Thanks.