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Eric2025

Allow special characters in workspace name

Submitted by on ‎08-14-2025 04:14 AM

For naming the Power BI workspaces it would be fine, when we can use special character (e.g. "#"). This is relevant for sorting the workspaces by name, so we can name frequently used workspace with an initial special charachter "#". 

In principle, it works fine to name this workspace, but afterwards there are an error with the pbi - project file to open the file, because the connection string in the definition file can not handle with special characters. 

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Eric2025
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‎08-14-2025 05:33 AM
The error occurs because of the format of the definiton.pbir-file. Since one of the last versions of Power BI, the connection string in this file changed from included the name of the server to a path of the workspace. So now, the workspace name is included in the connection string of the definition-file and obviously doesn´t work with special characters.