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wrm-itstaff
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9 years ago
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Problem publishing template from Desktop to Power BI Online

Hello Power BI Folks, We have a publishing problem that has just started. BACKGROUND:  We use desktop to create and maintain a template that is published to Power BI online.  The template is linked...
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    v-sihou-msft
    9 years ago

    wrm-itstaff

     

    You can't publish a .pbit file. What you have published should be .pbix file. Once you open a .pbit file and retrieve the data properly, you must save it into .pbix for use. That's the reason why it always show "Untitiled". If you directly publish a .pbit file, it will show this error:

     

    Publishing to Power BI.  An error occured while attempting to publish ": Path cannot be null. 

    Parameter name: path

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v-sihou-msft
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9 years ago

wrm-itstaff

 

You can't publish a .pbit file. What you have published should be .pbix file. Once you open a .pbit file and retrieve the data properly, you must save it into .pbix for use. That's the reason why it always show "Untitiled". If you directly publish a .pbit file, it will show this error:

 

Publishing to Power BI.  An error occured while attempting to publish ": Path cannot be null. 

Parameter name: path

Regards,

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wrm-itstaff
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9 years ago

Thanks for your reply.  I understand what you are saying.  What prompted the question is that the behavior of publishing from Desktop appears to have changed with the July update.  This particular content pack is configured to receive daily updates through a premise gateway so there is no need to actually include the data while publishing.  We saved the .pbix and published and it worked.

 

QUESTION:  Since we use a gateway to update the database online, should we change how we handle the content pack in Desktop?  The current .pbit file is 78 K while the .pbix file is 87 MEG.  The data file grows on a daily basis.  Should we change the content pack to do a query instead of loading all the data?

 

Thanks again for your help.

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    wrm-itstaff
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    9 years ago

    This appears to be another case of MS fixing an unintended feature.  We have been publishing the templates until the July Power BI update.  If templates were not allowed to be published, there was a bug prior to the July release that allowed them to be published.  For analysis packs that link to a large online database it seems that it would be preferable to allow the uploading of the template instead of requiring it to include the data.

     

    QUESTION:  Is there an alternate method that should be used when publishing to Power BI Online?

     

    Thanks for your help.