Copy of Report to other workspace with Visual Updates

[Anonymous]

Hello Power BI community,
I'm currently facing an issue with copying reports between workspaces in Power BI. I've successfully copied a report to another workspace, but I've noticed that when I update the visuals in the original report, the changes don't reflect in the copied report. The copied report only updates the dataset, not the visuals.

Background:

• I have a report in Workspace A.
• I made a copy of this report in Workspace B.
• Changes to the dataset in Workspace A reflect in Workspace B, but visual updates do not.

Question: Is there a way to ensure that visual updates made in the original report (Workspace A) are also reflected in the copied report (Workspace B)? I would like to maintain consistency across workspaces and have all changes, including visuals, synchronized automatically.

[Anonymous]

Hello @ibarrau , appreciate the clarification! I have a report that needs sharing across two distinct workspaces, enabling visibility for different teams within the company. While I can resolve this by uploading the same dataset to both workspaces, it seems redundant and strains the SQL Server unnecessarily.

It would be great to introduce a new feature enabling users to refresh the visual. Currently, each time I make a change, I have to delete the existing copy and create a new one, which is quite inconvenient. The most significant frustration arises from losing user metrics, which results in a loss of visibility into the viewers and views of the duplicated copy.

[ibarrau]

Well I don't see this happening because I can't find a reason for having the same report in two different workspaces. If it's an issue about filtering for different audiences you can handle that with RLS in a single report. The closest practice to avoid re work would be always make changes at Power Bi Desktop and then publish two times. One for each workspace. That way you have made changes for the report one time and publish two times.

I hope that helps,

[ibarrau]

Hi. No, there is not way to do that. When you do that, you are copying the report like a file in a PC. The new file you have copied is independant now. If you modify the original file the copy won't change. Changing the dataset works because the copy is only of the visual report, but it's still pointing to the original dataset. It creates a report live connected to the original dataset that has the same visuals of the original.

You can't create somehow two reports that will change when one is modified. Maybe if you share with us why would you like to do that, we might share a solution to the original issue you are trying to solve that way.

I hope that helps,