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bobsaved
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1 year ago
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Change all excel file connection strings from one semantic model workspace to a new owner/workspace

Thank you for responding to this request. We have a reasonably large desktop excel file (700 meg) with a couple of dozen connections to a single large power BI semantic model in owner A's power bi se...
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    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi bobsaved ,

    If you want to modify the connection to the semantic model in Excel:

    Sorry, you can't modify all the connections in bulk, you can only change them manually one by one.

    If you want to modify the data source connection in pbix:

    Then you can try to publish to Power BI Service first, and then use the Rebind Report in the REST API to rebind the report dataset.
    Reports - Rebind Report - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

    Best Regards,
    Dino Tao
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