Archiving of Reports Built in Web Across Workspaces

Hey j_ocean ,

Creating a report inside the Service is something we do not recommend to our users, exactly for the reason you mentioned.

Nevertheless sometimes things happen.

If you want the pbix - there is a clumsy way, if you want to make sure that you have a "copy" of the report to prepare for a desaster like an accidental deletion of the report it's a little bit more simple.

Both scenarios retrieving the pbix from a report created on the web and creating a backup from the report are requiring a Microsoft Fabric capacity or a Premium capacity (with Fabric workloads enabled), as both are relying on the Git-Integration feature. That allows you to synch the content of the workspace with a repo based on azure DevOps (you need a license for Azure DevOps as well).

If the workspace content (here it's the report) is synched with the Azure DevOps repository, you have the backup. If you want the pbix, you can synch the repo to your development machine (on my side it's MacBook running Parallels to have Power BI Desktop). Open the Power BI project in Power BI Desktop and save the file as a pbix.

Hopefully, this provides a new idea.

Regards,

Tom