Deployment Pipeline allows downloading of .pbix files from Test & Prod workspaces

[manavnayak]

Hi Team,

According to the documentation provided in the following link, it is stated that we should not be able to download the .pbix file from any location in the pipeline other than the workspace where it was originally uploaded.

Link - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-pipelines/understand-the-deployment-process...

However, in my pipeline, which consists of three stages - Dev, Test, and Prod, I have noticed that I am able to download the .pbix file from both the Test and Prod stages. This seems to contradict the documentation.

When I select the option to ‘Download this file’, I am able to successfully download the semantic model .pbix file.

Similarly, I can also download the .pbix file from the Report View.

Note: Please note that I have tested this with Admin, Member, and Contributor Access to see if the ability to download the file changes.

Upon downloading and attempting to open the .pbix file, a message is displayed at the top of the report.

If I choose to ‘Apply changes’, the entire report becomes unusable and breaks.

However, if I select ‘Discard changes’, I am able to view, edit, and modify the .pbix file and even republish it to the Dev, Test, or Prod workspaces.

I would appreciate it if you could clarify whether this is a bug or if there is something I am misunderstanding.

Thank you.

[GilbertQ]

Hi @manavnayak 

The way I understand this is an issue of using incremental refresh, and we'll be able to download the PBIX files. And that is why you can successfully download them and view them. The reason for the apply changes to me is when those changes meant to be applied when moving across the different stages of deployment pipelines. So we described those changes. It is keeping the pbix as is.

[manavnayak]

Hi @GilbertQ , Thank you for your response. I am not using Incremental Refresh for the mentioned report.

[GilbertQ]

That is why you can download the reports, because you're not using incremental refresh

[manavnayak]

Okay, but I am sure and I remember correctly that previosuly even if we were not performing Incremental Refresh, we were still not able to download the .pbix file.

Is there any Documentation/Blog/Article which says that Deployment Pipelines have been updated and now if we dont use Incremental Refresh we can download the .pbix files from the 2nd and 3rd stage workpsaces of Deployment Pipeline?