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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.
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?
”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
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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