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Download/Edit PBIX from report server is original version
You're not missing anything, it's expected behavior for now. Do up-vote it on PowerBI user voice.
Just purely for background, when PowerBI report is uploaded, the underlying model is pulled out of the file and mounted on an internal instance of analysis services and stored seprately. The "re-stiching" of the model and report back into a single file is tricky and not currently supported.
I have been downloading the pbix files from the Report Server at the beginning of the month to have a copy of the reports each month. And, now I have realized that the data weren´t of the download date. This behavior is not logical, is very confusing!
Is there any issue in https://ideas.powerbi.com to ask for changing that behavior?
Thanks
If you just want the modeled data out of the pbix file every month, you might be better off exporting it via a script. Something like the below PBI_Exporter.ps1 would probably work well:
That way you can easily pull that exported monthly snapshot back into a PBI report if needed (it's just a CSV/XLS dump of the non-measure data in the model). There might be newer/better ways to do this now (if your using the cloud service), but i think you're limited to options like this if using on-prem (report server) or local desktop solutions
Thanks Kraius for your message.
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(When I need download intensively pbix with data updated I´ll test this solution:
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