How can multiple developer work on same data Model in a PBIX file?

[mmoizk]

Hello Experts,

We have lot of visuals to be done on a unified data model. They are more than 16 visuals that need to be drawn in a day and we have 3 developers available. The Idea is to share the PBIX among the 3 developer to get the visual done. But how would be unify all the visuals done by these developer. We aren't able tot copy paste visual. Any idea how we can achieve this ? Any help will be greatly appreciate. 

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @mmoizk,

In your scenario, you can publish those three .pbix files which are created by three developers. Then pin all visuals from those reports to the same dashboard. And you can share the dashboard with people, or package up and share the dashboard .

Reference:

Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from a report
Share a dashboard with colleagues and others

Tutorial: Create and publish an organizational content pack in Power BI

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[mmoizk]

Thanks Qiuyun Yu,

For dev team the delivery is to give one single PBIX , as part of handover and transition they only want one PBIX file to manage and maintain 

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @mmoizk,

Currently, we are not able to neither combine multiple .pbix files to one .pbix file, nor copy visual from other .pbix file to this file. In your scenario, you can let Dev team works on one .pbix file in turn, or works on three .pbix files and pin visuals to one dashboard which suggested in my original post.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[mmoizk]

Thanks , We end up doing the work in serial order. It would be nice if the model is same we are able to port the visuals . If i have time i wanted to explore the unzip of pbix to zip extention and see if i can hack the place the visiual there and see if it picks it up. 

[Greg_Deckler]

I am not aware of an option for that. Generally, group workspaces are the vehicle for collaboration within Power BI.