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Matching the version of Desktop with Report Server
You need to use a PBI Desktop install that is aligned with the SSRS version. There were 3 releases of the SSRS Server June17, Oct17 and now March18. Each has a Desktop installer associated with it.
You were using June17-SSRS-Desktop with the Oct17-SSRS-Server which worked fine.
Now you have updated to the Feb18-Cloud-Desktop version you are experiencing version problems.
I would probably suggest you uninstall your Feb18 version and download the Oct17-SSRS-Desktop or earlier (I can't seem to track down a URL for this) I can see the "current" March18 version but not any older versions. Might be useful to have access to these.
If you're really stuck I have the 64bit installer for Oct17-SSRS-Desktop I could DropBox it to you.
Unfortunately MS have a bit of form when it comes to comaptability issues in the early versions of stuff. Its understandable as features and just getting it working take precedence. The challenges of supporting this stuff operationally over the long term always take a while to appear. The operational stuff rarely gets prioritised until it's really dire. MS are not alone in this its all about the race for features in software these days.
Unfortunately we're in the painful growing phase where changes to the product are big and too frequently break stuff. It is alas the price of being quite so close to the cutting edge.
It's fun in a tightrope walk over a pit of tigers with the tightrope on fire kind of way.
Apologies for bombarding you but I have opened my Feb 18 file in the Jun 17 version, made some changes and resolved it.
i still cannot upload it into the Oct 2017 Report Server and it still won’t accept it. I am assuming that it still sees it as a later version. I can’t see any way of saving it “down”a version the way you can in Office...
I have a bad feeling the only way of "downgrading" the PBIX file might be to unzip it, alter the meta data and re-zip it. And there's no guarantee that this will work.
Of course you could download the original (old version) of the PBIX file from the SSRS-PBI server and repeat your changes in the correct version of PBI Desktop.
The June 2017 SSRS Server is really intolerant of this sort of stuff. The Oct17 versions seems to be more tolerant. Can’t speak for the March18 version as we have yet to install it.