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Convert Old Workspaces to New Workspaces
hi, markefrody
1. Current new workspace is a preview feature, power bi-product team is developing it. and more function could be used. But we can't give you the exact time for it, and we believe that It will be finished soon.
2. During the preview period, you can't automatically convert your old app workspaces to new ones. You can however create a new app workspace and publish your content to the new location.
When the new workspaces are generally available (GA), you can opt in to migrate the old ones automatically. At some point after GA, you'll have to migrate them.
3. I recommend you migrate them after the new workspaces to be generally available. For now, it needs you manually reconstruct my dashboards and for it is a preview feature there are also some limitations in it.
But you could try it early.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-create-the-new-workspaces
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-new-workspaces
Best Regards,
Lin
What I do to migrate old to new. Make two copies of the workspace icon with text added Old and New.
publish a new app workspace with new icon
change icon for old workspace to Old.
Republish apps in the new workspace.
migrate users.
But surely if we create a new workspace and migrate the old workspace content across to it, the final URLs for the App and its reports will be completely different from the existing ones - meaning that the end users will need to replace all their bookmarked links.
I'm hoping that the 'official workspace upgrade tool' (when it is released) will do an inplace upgrade which won't change any of the GUIDs in the URL. Is that reasonable?
- Yes, it’s reasonable. In my case, I have a dataset that I can’t duplicate and I need it in two workspaces now.