Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago

Reuse Published Data Models/Sets/Sources In New Reports

I find myself including the same data in almost all of my reports (Customer, Vendor, Material, Date, Plant, etc) and was wondering if there was a way to publish Each one of these datasets/datasources...
Need Help
malagari's avatar
malagari
Continued Contributor
9 years ago

I'm commenting just to follow the responses to this.  I've been curious about the same thing.

 

Often times, it makes sense to have a separate report for the sake of delineation of context (different business organizations, departments, etc).  It's not to the complexity of needing a full-blown RLS setup, but definitely needs the separation.

 

The only way I've seen to do this is to create the subsequent reports IN the browser on PowerBI.com.  This means that any new custom measures/columns have to be created in the initial PBIX that relates to that data source.  I would love to have this ability in the Desktop version, but I'm not sure how it would work architecturally.

 

Anonymous - I suggest opening an Idea for this.

  • shanecwu's avatar
    shanecwu
    Helper I
    8 years ago

    Ditto.  There doesn't seem to be much info on this, however.  If an Idea has been opened for this, I didn't see it.  I know there is a work around manner of reusing Power Queries by sourcing from a text file, which is actually great for version control.  I believe this discussion pertains to the same thing but for the entire PBI dataset as opposed to a single query.

     

    https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2014/02/04/loading-power-query-m-code-from-text-files/