Syncing visuals / report pages in Desktop and Web version

[david2]

Hello all,

I am working on setting up the data model for our company in PowerBI Desktop Service. I have published this data model + report to the web version, so my colleagues can look at the data and create visuals for themselves.

As i continuously improve our data model (pull in new sources, refine data, allocate costs/revenues etc), i plan to publish an updated version of our data model every week or so. However, when doing that, i will discard any of the visuals my colleagues made in the web version of our report, as the report pages / visuals they create are not synced to my locally saved .pbix file.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks!

David

[ankitpatira · Accepted solution]

@david2 There is soon going to be a feature out (no timeline yet) that will let you download pbix file from power bi service (online). That means your workflow can be, Create report in pbi desktop -> Publish to service -> your colleagues make changes in service to that report -> download pbix file from service -> make changes to that pbix file -> re-publish to service. Keep an eye on this idea here to find out when it will be out.

[david2]

Perfect, that would indeed be the best solution (i was hoping for this already).

Thanks @ankitpatira