Automatically Find Errors in Visuals

[joeparkinson]

We've 100s of Power BI reports, and sometimes a change may cause a visual to error out and become unviewable to the user. At the moment, the only way we detect this is through reactively being informed by our users.

Does anyone know if its possible at all, to automatically report on which reports have visual errors? 

[ibarrau]

Hi. There is no way to capture visual failures at reports. However, you could run data validations to prevent them. Usually, a visual broken at a report it's because the semantic model has introduced a bug. That kind of things could be because a something has changed, like a Measure or the data model. That can be controlled with some data quality validations after the refresh of the semantic model.

That could help prevent possible errors, but not all of them. If you change column names or remove columns. It will break visuals for sure and you can only send a warning for developers (unless you have documented every column used by all report visuals, that I don't think anyone has).

I hope that helps,