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YB
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5 years ago
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Downloading PBIX from Service breaks dataset

Hi Folks,   I have a really strange issue I'm hoping someone could shine a light on.  We are still currently setting up our environment but we have a pipeline for all of our workspaces with a TEST ...
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    YB
    5 years ago

    After speaking with Microsoft support they were just as confounded as I was originally.  However, after some research they did discover an interesting limitation outlined in the documentation.

     

    After deployment, downloading a dataset (from the stage it's been deployed to) is not supported.

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/deployment-pipelines-process#limitations-1 

     

    So basically, at least as it stands now, it appears you cannot download a dataset from a location in the pipeline other than it's original uploaded workspace.  Hopefully this will help others if they encounter the same issue.

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bwarner87
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4 years ago

YB ,

 

Thank you so much for posting this. I ran into a very similar issue as well. Once I went back to the Dev workspace (where i originally uploaded) and downloaded the .pbix I was able to get the complete .pbix file. Additionally worth mentioning is that when I opened the downloaded .pbix file in the last stage of my pipeline (PROD) it didn't have any data sources and 0 queries AND also gave me the same applying changes message you mentioned which had a disasterous effect to my file and made it unusuable. 

 

Thanks again,

 

Brandon