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Helper IIISync Desktop with BI Service
Power BI noob here. I have just started Power BI and created some reports on Power BI desktop and then clicke publish to view these reports on web (called Power BI service).
My question is that when I do any change in the Power BI desktop, when it will be available in Power BI service and when I edit report in Power BI service, when will it will be available in Power BI desktop?
Do I need to publish everytime when I change any thing in desktop and service how to sync with desktop? When I click publish again I get the message `Do you wanna overwite the data sources`, honestly I don't get what does this mean.
Just wanna know how people doing sync between both dekstop and service?
Hi iqb ,
Whenever you make a change in Desktop, you will need to publish to the Service to keep them in sync. That is a change in the report itself - not just a refresh. You can refresh the data manually in the Service, or, better yet, you can set the scheduled refresh to refresh the data automatically.
If you edit the report in the Service, you will need to download it again to desktop.
Basically, desktop and Service do not sync in the report level unless you do it manually. As for refreshing the data, in a normal situation, the Service does the automatic refreshing and the Service always has the latest and greatest data.
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- collinq
Super User
Hi iqb ,
Whenever you make a change in Desktop, you will need to publish to the Service to keep them in sync. That is a change in the report itself - not just a refresh. You can refresh the data manually in the Service, or, better yet, you can set the scheduled refresh to refresh the data automatically.
If you edit the report in the Service, you will need to download it again to desktop.
Basically, desktop and Service do not sync in the report level unless you do it manually. As for refreshing the data, in a normal situation, the Service does the automatic refreshing and the Service always has the latest and greatest data.
iqbWhy it ask are you sure to overwrite when I do any changes and publish?
- collinq
Hey iqb ,
It will ask you to overwrite because there is already a version on the Service. So, that makes sense. As a friendly reminder, you do not need to refresh and publish the file in desktop regularly as you can just have teh Service doing the Scheduled Refresh. You only need to publish from Desktop to the Service when you make a change to the report (like a visual, or a new tab).