Best Practice / workflow for maintaining a report over time

[BrettBailey]

Hi

I'm trying out Power BI for my team and I'm still a relative beginner.  

I've developed a few reports in the desktop designer app and published them to a workgroup.

I over time a number of others and myself will need to make updates to the report beyond the basics of changing filters etc and will want to use the designer.

I  if we just pass the pbix files around it will be tricky to keep track of the latest version. 

The PBIX file is binary so source control isn't going to work well.

I noticed there is a "download pbix" option in the power bi website but that only seems to be available to to person who initially uploaded the reports. 

So whats the best practice for maintaining reports when you have a team of designers?

[DP86 · Accepted solution]

@BrettBailey , this article by Paul Turley may give you some idea:

• https://sqlserverbi.blog/2019/08/24/power-bi-project-good-and-best-practices

[v-yuta-msft · Accepted solution]

@BrettBailey ,

Yes, the report will always be replaced by the latest version in power bi service. And currently there's no feature which can let user to manage version control like github.

The workaround is the thrid-party blog mentioned by DP86 .

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

[DP86 · Accepted solution]

@BrettBailey , this article by Paul Turley may give you some idea:

• https://sqlserverbi.blog/2019/08/24/power-bi-project-good-and-best-practices