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h4tt3n
Helper V
6 years ago

Batch report update and upload?

Hello everyone,   I work in a fast-growing startup company that relies on PBI to present measurement data to our customers. We already have about 90 reports up and running, and that number is expec...
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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

Well, you could check out the Power BI REST API.

 

But, I would recommend you start using data flows. Then you can change data source credentials once for all of the reports.

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    h4tt3n
    Helper V
    6 years ago

    Ok, thanks for the advice, I will look into the REST api and data flows. It'll probably be at least a week before I have the time to look further into it, but I'll come back and mark as solution if it did the trick.

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    h4tt3n
    Helper V
    6 years ago

    Greg_Deckler 

    I have been looking into the REST api and data flows documented here, but I am not quite sure how this would be helpful in batch report updates. Could you please elaborate a little? The docs are very sparsely described, and what I am looking for is more like a beginner's tutorial.

    To clarify, we develop reports in Power BI desktop and upload them to the Power BI online service. We do not develop our own apps .

     

    If anyone else has some advice on automated or batch report updates, then I would very much like to hear about it.

     

    Cheers, Mike