topic Rebinding a Report in Developer https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Rebinding-a-Report/m-p/3172266#M42074 <P><A href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report-in-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report-in-group</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The documentation states:</P><P>"</P><UL><LI>On rebind, reports with a<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-report-lifecycle-datasets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">live connection</A><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>will lose that connection and instead have a direct binding to the target dataset.</LI></UL><DIV class="">"</DIV><DIV class="">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="">I have a report that connects to the dataset using live connection. This says that when I rebind the report to a new dataset I will lose 'live connection' and will have 'direct binding to the target dataset'.</DIV><DIV class="">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="">What is direct binding? I have not come across this terminology before.</DIV> Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:45:32 GMT acanfield 2023-04-04T16:45:32Z Rebinding a Report https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Rebinding-a-Report/m-p/3172266#M42074 <P><A href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report-in-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report-in-group</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The documentation states:</P><P>"</P><UL><LI>On rebind, reports with a<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-report-lifecycle-datasets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">live connection</A><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>will lose that connection and instead have a direct binding to the target dataset.</LI></UL><DIV class="">"</DIV><DIV class="">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="">I have a report that connects to the dataset using live connection. This says that when I rebind the report to a new dataset I will lose 'live connection' and will have 'direct binding to the target dataset'.</DIV><DIV class="">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="">What is direct binding? I have not come across this terminology before.</DIV> Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:45:32 GMT https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Rebinding-a-Report/m-p/3172266#M42074 acanfield 2023-04-04T16:45:32Z