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diverdown1964
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Most Valuable Professional

Existing tabular models

Will PBI Designer be able to connect to existing tabluar models in the service? The use case is creating a new report set from an exising data source that a user has already created.

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Arieln
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Microsoft Employee

We dont have that capabilty at the moment. We will have it down the road.

Ariel

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Arieln
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

We dont have that capabilty at the moment. We will have it down the road.

Ariel

Anonymous
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Yes we there two ways to achive this 1 you can create new page as report 

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Also in power bi website we can add same excel source model again and get same duplicated model as shown in following sanpshot

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