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h4tt3n
6 years agoHelper V
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...
Greg_Deckler
6 years agoCommunity Champion
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.
h4tt3n
6 years agoHelper V
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