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Anonymous
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Analyze in Excel question

Hello

I have a PBI report published to a UAT workspace. I created a refreshable excel report from this PBI report.

So there is a connection to this specific PBI model.

Question: If I now publish this very same report to a Production workspace, would the data connection change?
And, if the data connection changes, can I simply modify the data connection in "Properties" of the excel report to now update to the Production workspace?
Thanks.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

In order to help you better, I have two points to confirm with you.

 

“a refreshable excel report“, Does this refer to exporting the report to Analyze in excel?

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”If I now publish this very same report to a Production workspace“, refers to whether it is the PBI report or the refreshable excel report?

 

Best Regards,
Yulia Xu

Anonymous
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Hi Yulia, answers:

1) Yes

2) No - the PBIX is first published to Workspace #, then the Analyze in Excel report is created from there, the excel report contains pivot tables and filters. Then, the PBIX is published to Workspace #2. Instead of re-creating the excel report which already has several pivot tables and filterings, can I simply modify the data connection (which is the PBI model of the report published in Workspace #1) so that it is the PBI model of the same PBIX report now published in Workspace #2. I hope this explanation is clearer. 

Thank you.

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