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Helper IFinding Unsupported features in Power Bi RS
* Power Bi Report Server is an offshoot of the SSRS report server, enhanced and optimized for hosting Power Bi reports.
* The normal Power Bi Desktop created reports likely will not work with this due to having features not supported by the server.
* Instead, you need to use a special version of desktop, commonly called Power Bi Desktop RS (version number/date)
* You can save an existing Power BI report created in the normal desktop version by saving it as a template and opening it with the RS version.
* But, there may still be some advanced features in the report that are not supported in Power Bi Report server and these will prevent the report from being uploaded to the server.
Question: Is there an easy way to identify features in a PBi Report that are not supported by the Power Bi Report Server?
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- d_gosbell
Super User
They should all be listed here Comparing Power BI Report Server and the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn and there are some extra restrictions in terms of which data sources support scheduled refresh which are listed here Power BI report data sources in Power BI Report Server - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
wsdcawefwqrevfqThx.
While certianly a comprehensive list, it's not exactly what I had in mind as an, "Easy way".
I was hoping for at least some kind of error log after the attempted upload detailing the issues the server objected to.
- d_gosbell
wsdcawefwqrevfq wrote:
I was hoping for at least some kind of error log after the attempted upload detailing the issues the server objected to.
If you are using the correct version of Desktop (as you've noted above) you should not see any errors.
If you try to upload a file created with the incorrect version of desktop I would guess that the server would either stop when it detects that the internal file version is newer or when it hits some data that it's not expecting. I would not expect it to build a list of everything it could not deal with since that would require it to have knowledge of data structures that were added after the server was compiled. I would not expect that it could tell the difference between a corrupt file or some file created with a future version of desktop.
