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Anonymous
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Creating New Reports

When I create a new report I create a duplicate of an existing report file and then change the DSN.  The reason is because this existing report is the template I use.  Is there a better practise? 

 

Also, and more importantly right now, with my current method, i keep getting a 'ODBC: ERROR [08001] FATAL: Too many connections for role'.  Do you think this is due to the my duplicate method?

 

Thanks.

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lbendlin
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You can duplicate an existing report, or you can create a template (.pbit) and then create new reports from that template.

 

The error is on the ODBC/ data source side. Has nothing to do with Power BI.

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lbendlin
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You can duplicate an existing report, or you can create a template (.pbit) and then create new reports from that template.

 

The error is on the ODBC/ data source side. Has nothing to do with Power BI.

Anonymous
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Thanks a lot!

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