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diverdown1964
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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 

NewPage.png

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

NewReport.png

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