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I'm running into an issue with the Power BI portal. I have an app workspace with only excel workbooks and no reports or dashboards and i cannot publish the app. It gives me an error (see attached image).
After adding a report (from a pbix) i can publish the app.
When i then remove the report, leaving only the workbooks, i can update the app (which gives me the result i want)
If i then unpublish the app and try to publish again (with only workbooks and no reports) it gives me the error again.
Solved! Go to Solution.
The issue seems to have resolved itsself. Thanks for your input.
Hi @mvogt_ilionx,
Glad to hear the issue is gone now. I will close this thread.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu
The issue seems to have resolved itsself. Thanks for your input.
Hi @mvogt_ilionx,
I'm not able to reproduce the issue both in old version workspace and new preview workspace. In your scenario, please remove this workbook and upload a new workbook then publish the app again.
If the same issue occurs, please share the detail information about the error message.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu
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