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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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6 years ago

Avoid Multiple users work at the same pbix file simultaneously

Hello!

 

My team have work on Power Bi Deskstop. I have read that  Power Bi does not support for multiple users work at the same file simultaneously. But is there any solution for my group to edit the file without synchronization problem in sharepoint? We got an issue when multiple users work at the same file it can cause conflict for the file.

So can we get the solutions below:

 

1. When a user edit the file, other member will be lock from editing until the file is syncronize to sharepoint completely.

2. When a user edit the file, other member only at the read mode.

 

Tips and Tricks

3 Replies

  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Anonymous , even if you share on a common location, the last save will be taken. So use will overwrite each other's content.

     

    But You can copy-paste visual from one pbix to another. Check this

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/intelligence-platform/power-bi-desktop/copy-paste-across-reports

     

    Now Divide the work based on pages to be created. each user can create their own page and later that can be copy-pasted(visual).

    But that need strong data model before so that users do not need to create formulas in their pbix , they can use existing one.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      This is a huge data sir. So we cannot simply copy and paste😥 That's why we create group so everyone can edit pbix file anytime, But the problem is we want to make sure that multiple users do not edit the file at the same time. BTW thanks for your respond😀

  • v-lili6-msft's avatar
    v-lili6-msft
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    hi  Anonymous 

    In this scenario, the pbix file is same with excel file or ppt file in the sharepoint, it could not achieve as you said.

    As a workaround, you may define a rule for this pbix file, add a flag column for this pbix file in sharepoint, then when someone need download the pbix file to develop it, please adjust the flag column context to remind other users that this file is developped by someone, do not download it any more before the flag column return initialization.

     

    Regards,

    Lin