Report got unlinked from the Dataset. How to link it back?

[rohitsabhlok]

Hi

Yesterday we re-published our report from PBI Desktop after making some changes.

The report got published successfully but we noticed that the share list(list of people with whom the report had been earlier shared) was empty. On further analysis we noticed that the ReportID was different from earlier although the report name was same.

We had the ReportID of the earlier report, when we tried to open it by giving the full report URL in browser address bar we got the following error. 

   The Dataset with the same name is still there but it's now linked to the new ReportID. We would like to link the dataset to the earlier ReportID since that report was shared with large number of people.

Is there some way we can relink the report to the dataset or are we now screwed 🙂

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

You are now screwed.  Keep in mind that dataset names and report names are meaningless.  Everything works based on the GUIDs.  We had such a case a while back and while technically possible to ask Microsoft to rewire the connection in the backend we decided to cut our losses and start over by removing everything from the service and re-publishing. Yes, it's a pain, but not the end of the world.

Much more inportant to figure out why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again.