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Create a new report from an existing data set in Power BI
Microsoft Employee
Jeff_973 wrote:
Currently, we are only able to create a new report from an existing dataset via the javascript API. Will a REST API endpoint be available in the feature to create a new report from an existing dataset?
What do you mean a "REST API endpoint"? Currently, besides the Javascript API, you can also Connect to datasets in the Power BI service from Power BI Desktop.
I am referring to the "Power BI Rest APIs" (here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt147898.aspx) and I was wondering if they will be adding a new endpoint to support creating a report from an existing data-set . We are developing a web application for our client's that utilizes the PBI embedding. From our website our users can create reports from an existing data set.
HOW: The user selects an available data-set, I call the PBI service for a Create Access Token, I use the java script api to embed the new report and call the save as function. The save as function returns the new report guid; I then persist the information about the new report to our database, then I request an edit token from the PBI service and embed the report for editing. I would like to do this all on the server-side hence my original question.