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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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How to edit queries with live connection to data

I'm trying to edit the queries in power query for a report I have but when I go to download the file to open on the desktop it does not give me the option to download the data. I can downl...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    this was "solved" here but the TLDR is that I just needed to recreate the whole thing which was annoying but not the end of the world and learned a good lesson and backing stuff up just in case.

    Ultimately I just downloaded the dataset and used that as a base file to copy and paste the visuals from the live report into, some of the formatting didnt quite copy over but for the most part it was pretty simple.

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Sergii24
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3 years ago

Hi Anonymous, usually you get such message when report author (a person who published a report to PowerBI Service) decided to block pbix file download. This is defined in report settings:

 

So you need to ask the report author to publish it again with corresponsing setting. Obvosily, you should have corresponding build access to this report (again, decided by report owner).

 

Good luck 🙂