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balajimrb
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

File is incompatible with current version

Hello PowerBI team,   I am using PBI desktop June 2020 and worked on a large project (almost 3 weeks) for my organization. When i shared it with my colleague who uses a slighltly older version, he ...
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V-lianl-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi balajimrb ,

 

Unfortunately, users can only update the version

 

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Liang
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balajimrb
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Thanks for your response. However i see this as a major concern when it comes to organizational usage of PowerBI. Every user will have his/her auto update schedules which is set only by their organization's IT dept. And under such circumstances, when a pbix file (created in latest version) is shared within (or between) organizations there is no medium left to share the file thats readable by the other party. This leads to

  1. disruption of on time delivery of reports
  2. thought of looking for an alternative tool altogether which doesnot have this drawback
  3. and in my case option 2 is not an immediately available fix either. I simply dont know whether i should end up scrapping weeks of work. and i dont feel good about it.

I strongly urge you to consider this situation and provide a fix asap.

 

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    Syndicate_Admin
    Administrator
    3 years ago

    Hello

    Very much in agreement with what you say. It has happened to me several times and I had to migrate my report to other platforms: If only Power Bi had a Cloud platform, it would be great. Apart from that, that the versions are compatible with previous versions.

    Best regards!