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Clone report for PowerBi embedded

jhrc_lda — Fri, 05 May 2017 04:56:40 GMT

Hi,

Are you guys able to clone reports with the Api.Core library? This is what I'm trying to do:

1) I have a report in workspace X

2) Want to clone the report from workspace X to workspace Y

3) I'm not specifying the dataset id, as it is an optional value and I assume will be cloned as well

This is the code I'm trying:

            var cloneReportRequest = new CloneReportRequest(newName, targetWorkspaceId);
            var credentials = new TokenCredentials(Utils.accessKey, "AppKey");
            var client = new PowerBIClient(credentials);
            client.BaseUri = new Uri(Utils.apiEndpointUri);
            Report report;

            using (client)
            {
                report = client.Reports.CloneReport(
                        workspaceCollectionName,
                        workspaceId,
                        reportId,
                        cloneReportRequest);
            }

I have tried the provision sample for PowerBI Embeded, PowerCli and the code above. All of them return "Bad Request". There is not much documentation on it other than: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-ch/dotnet/api/microsoft.powerbi.api.v1.reportsextensions.clonereport?view=powerbiapi-1.1.10

The same config works to create reports, generate embed tokens, etc.

Any suggestion is appareciated.

Thanks,

Re: Clone report for PowerBi embedded

Eric_Zhang — Fri, 12 May 2017 07:26:55 GMT

@jhrc_lda

I can reproduce the same issue here. Just raise a issue in the Github lab.

Re: Clone report for PowerBi embedded

jhrc_lda — Wed, 31 May 2017 23:58:00 GMT

@Eric_Zhang Thanks for your comment!

I have tried both, the API and the Provision Sample, none of then worked.

Do you have a replied yet?

Cheers,

Re: Clone report for PowerBi embedded

dmoenkhaus — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:33:08 GMT

Fairly certain that is deprecated at this point, it doesn't look like there is a "clone" capability on the currently supported version.

Api docs

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn877544.aspx

c# client sdk for api

https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-CSharp

note that the github repo mentioned has not been commited to in awhile, my guess is that it's not being actively maintained.

Re: Clone report for PowerBi embedded

arinah — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:12:27 GMT

Hey Guys,

Please follow the MSDN API specification here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt784674.aspx.

Clone API within workspace and across workspaces is available for a while both for the old (deprecated) Azure embedding using app key authenication and through the new way of embdding using user AAD token to Power BI.

Actually this API is availbale for every Power BI user who whiches to automate his workflow.

I believe the issue you encountered is due to lacking dataset id in the "Y" workspace which is mandatory paramter when cloning reports across workspaces.

Let me know in case you encounter any other issues,

Arina