Deployment Pipeline makes report unusable until refreshed

Hi, phlppnsk 

As far as I know, the case scenario you described: every time we make a change to a report that affects the data model, the in-app report "breaks" until the data model in the Prod workspace is refreshed, which is actually the logic of running the item in the background of the deployment pipeline of by design, which is the official documentation answer to the question you mentioned:

Data in the target Power BI item, such as a dataset or dataflow, is kept when possible. If there are no changes to a Power BI item that holds the data, the data is kept as it was before the deployment.

In many cases, when you have a small change such as adding or removing a table, Power BI keeps the original data. For breaking schema changes, or changes in the data source connection, a full refresh is required.

For more information, you can refer to :
Deployment pipelines, the Power BI Application lifecycle management (ALM) tool, process - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

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