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When I'm cloning a report on a specific workspace using the api, the datasetID is returning null. Why this is happening?
VERBOSE: GET https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/reports/dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec with 0-byte payload
VERBOSE: received -1-byte response of content type application/json; odata.metadata=minimal; odata.streaming=true
VERBOSE: Found!
VERBOSE: @{@odata.context=http://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/$metadata#reports/$entity; id=dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec; reportType=PowerBIReport; name=reportname; webUrl=https://app.powerbi.com/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/reports/dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec; embedUrl=https://app.powerbi.com/reportEmbed?reportId=dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec&groupId=a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f&w=2&config=ey...; isFromPbix=False; isOwnedByMe=True; datasetId=aa3bf5b8-af51-4c21-9d6d-88242c986098}
VERBOSE: Getting dataset aa3bf5b8-af51-4c21-9d6d-88242c986098...
VERBOSE: GET https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/datasets/aa3bf5b8-af51-4c21-9d6d-88242c986098 with 0-byte payload
VERBOSE: received -1-byte response of content type application/json; odata.metadata=minimal; odata.streaming=true
VERBOSE: Found!
VERBOSE: @{@odata.context=http://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/$metadata#datasets/$entity; id=aa3bf5b8-af51-4c21-9d6d-88242c986098; name=reportname; addRowsAPIEnabled=False; configuredBy=user; isRefreshable=False; isEffectiveIdentityRequired=True; isEffectiveIdentityRolesRequired=False; isOnPremGatewayRequired=True; targetStorageMode=Abf}
VERBOSE: Cloning report dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec...
VERBOSE: System.Collections.Hashtable
VERBOSE: POST https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/reports/dcc398c2-9bdc-4343-bf1c-83a7c80dadec/clone with -1-byte payload
VERBOSE: received -1-byte response of content type application/json; odata.metadata=minimal
VERBOSE: Successful cloned!
VERBOSE: @{@odata.context=http://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/a008b51a-be32-46ec-a236-d42a05331d8f/$metadata#reports/$entity; id=3ea99a7d-238d-4b95-8f85-cc466b0d4270; reportType=PowerBIReport; name=TempReport_c3b13bc9-3c46-4108-8d6e-6c7730af4d2c; webUrl=https://app.powerbi.com/reports/3ea99a7d-238d-4b95-8f85-cc466b0d4270; embedUrl=https://app.powerbi.com/reportEmbed?reportId=3ea99a7d-238d-4b95-8f85-cc466b0d4270&config=eyJ...; isOwnedByMe=False; datasetId=}
The problem occurs only with workspace in version 2, the clone api call is returning the datasetid as empty.
Were you able to solve this?
After clone I do another call to get the report if this comes null.
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