It would be handy to have the ability to work on PBIX files with very large datasets locally and then upload them elsewhere without including all the data - just the definitions. Once uploaded you w...
As said below, it possible to first create a template file, then load the template file and interupt the data update. Then save the file as a PBIX file and then upload this empty file to the Power BI Service. Also as said below, the reports in the Power BI Service will then be without data until the report/dataset has refreshed. I would suggest that it shall be possible to upload template files to the service and if a template file is uploaded, it shall adopt all the settings of the original uploaded PBIX file and first do a refresh before the dataset it putted into production
