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wieke2
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4 years ago
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Change data source in PowerBI service

Hi! I created a report in PowerBI service (on a dataset that I published from Desktop). Now I want the same report on different data sources.   I tried two ways, but both are not possible: 1. Chan...
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    ibarrau
    4 years ago

    Hi. I'm sorry but you can't. You should always start developing from Desktop in order to keep backups, versioning and modification possibilities.

    Sadly you need to connect a pbix file to the dataset and rebuild the report you have created online. Once you have the file connected you can change the sources if you have different environments or things like that. Even copy paste from pbix to pbix 😛

    I hope that helps,

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ibarrau
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4 years ago

Hi. I'm sorry but you can't. You should always start developing from Desktop in order to keep backups, versioning and modification possibilities.

Sadly you need to connect a pbix file to the dataset and rebuild the report you have created online. Once you have the file connected you can change the sources if you have different environments or things like that. Even copy paste from pbix to pbix 😛

I hope that helps,