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Update Power BI App via CI/CD / REST API?
Hi mvdwenv ,
Base on my research, there is no direct method to update the app by REST API. Please review the following thread, check if it can be used an workaround.
Solved: Automatically update app - Microsoft Fabric Community
that is unfortunately not an option. You have to explicitly update the App to reflect your changes.
Another way could be to give users Viewer access to the workspace, that's like read-only access. But in that way they do see all the items in the workspace, not only the items published with the App. Is that an option?In addition, the following one is a similar idea shared on Power BI Ideas, you can vote it up and add your comments there to improve Power BI on this feature.
Automatically update App when new reports and dashboards are published to the workspace
Best Regards
Hi mvdwenv ,
Base on my research, there is no direct method to update the app by REST API. Please review the following thread, check if it can be used an workaround.
Solved: Automatically update app - Microsoft Fabric Community
that is unfortunately not an option. You have to explicitly update the App to reflect your changes.
Another way could be to give users Viewer access to the workspace, that's like read-only access. But in that way they do see all the items in the workspace, not only the items published with the App. Is that an option?
In addition, the following one is a similar idea shared on Power BI Ideas, you can vote it up and add your comments there to improve Power BI on this feature.
Automatically update App when new reports and dashboards are published to the workspace
Best Regards
Thanks for the reply, I just wonder why this is not possible, exposing PBI content via an App is the recommended approach by Microsoft as this decouples the stage where changes are deployed and when changes are actually visibile to the end user.
Not being able to update the App in an automated / programmatic way would still require manual step when deploying new versions of Power BI content to a workspace. It would be a great addition if this feature becomes avaialbe in such deployment of Power BI content can be fully automated.
