Save as / migration options?

Hi,

I'm finding Power BI a little frustrating in terms of the workflow required to re-use existing reports and/or datasets. Perhaps I'm missing something so if anyone has any suggestions for me to improve my workflow and keep it as DRY as possible, I'd be totally grateful.

I always use the most recent version of Power BI Desktop, although I've found older reports don't always have the current functionality available when re-opened in PBI Desktop, compared to creating a new file in Power BI.

Is there any other way to migrate visual elements, measures, the data model, etc, from an existing report, to a new report where all functionality is available other than re-creating it manually?

Today I want to make a new report from an existing data model. I have a copy of my pbix with only a blank page in the front end, but it's the old-style pages (no dotted boundry & improved layout options). I want to take advantage of the updated features.

The data model has 57 queries in it, and I'm facing the task of having to open Advanced Editorand copy & paste the code for each one individually into my new report, and then I've got about 30 measures to re-create.

I speed things up with the latter using DAX Studio to export my measures to Excel so I can fire through copying & pasting them, but there's got to be a better way than this?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!