Power Bi Template

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Is there a feature in Power Bi , where we can create a template so that we can use different datasource(cross domain) for the same template and show the result with the same template dashboard?

Thanks,

Ravi

[Phil_Seamark · Accepted solution]

Not so much for Dashboards, but you can easily do this for reports.

Simply create your report using Power BI Desktop.  Then when you go File -> Save As, change the Save as type to be Power BI Template File (*,ppit)

[Anonymous]

Thanks, also I am looking for an option where I can replace the existing Datasource, for eg. replacing a Employee salary with a weather report which is having  different column names and data types compared to the original data source(Employee salary)

and the report should accept the changes dynamically and display the output.

Thanks,

Ravi

[Phil_Seamark]

You can kind of do this now via the API but I don't think it will be as fully featured as you need.

eg, you can post a data structure including tables, columns relationships and some measures.  You would need a mechanism to generate a structure but depending how complex your needs are it might work.

There is more detail here about how it works https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt147898.aspx but you'll need some development experience.