Have you ever asked these questions to yourself while working with multiple reports/dashboards using common datasets - “What if I modify this dataset?”, “Will this dataset modification impact any reports/dashboards?”, “Why report refresh failed?”, etc. If yes, then you are just one step away from answers to all these questions.
Power BI has a pretty good feature to show the lineage of all the reports that are published into Power BI workspace. I have not used this feature for some time but now have started using it as it gives a clear picture on the flow around a report/dashboard when published in Power BI workspace.
Today in this blog I will show few key advantages of this feature which can be beneficial for both the report developers and the report consumers, along with all the answers to the above questions.
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