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Kwarren35
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5 years ago

Deployment Pipelines - Dataset is different after a "Successful" Promotion from DEV to TEST

Hello,    We have been using Deployment Pipelines fairly successfully for 2 months now and working through issues. We need some ideas on how to best troubleshoot what is causing the dataset to be d...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hello. I think I have the same error here. There is already a fix ? 
If in dev I make an update that changes my dataset, when deployed to test it will keep saying that there is differences between the two datasets. Then, if I download the dataset .pbix from the test workspace, i can see that is is all messed up (tables names and fields) . I can only get this ok if I delete everything from test and deploy again from the beginning what is not good. 

There is any solution ? 

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Nimrod_Shalit
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5 years ago

Anonymous , few questions:

  • Is it happening on other items in your pipeline, or just datasets?
  • Is it happening on other datasets, or just this particular one?
  • Did it happen several times on that dataset, or just once?
  • What change did you made, that caused it to happen? or any change ends up with same result.

Also note that downloading a PBIX that been created/ updated through deployment isn't supported, so you might get corrupted files. We will block the option to download in the near future.

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Hello , 
    For now I am just working with a single dataset that feed a report. So, it is just happening to  the dataset, what has then an effect in the report. 
    It was more than one time and to fix it I had to delete the content of the workspace and deploy again. 
    The changes that I made that lead to this were changes in the model in PowerQuery. One time was the adding of a new table and the other time was the change on a step in a query. 
    How I manage the process : I made the changes in the PowerBi desktop and then I publish to the dev workspace, overwriting the existing content. Automatically the comparison in the deployment pipeline detects that there are differences in both objects : report and dataset. I select both and deploy to test environment. Then no differences are detected between the report, but the dataset still detects differences. When I said that I download the .pbix is not from the deployment is from the test workspace view. 

    I am not saying that it happens everytime I did changes in the model, but at least in these times it happen. 

    Thanks a lot.


    • Nimrod_Shalit's avatar
      Nimrod_Shalit
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      5 years ago

      Please open a support ticket, sounds like a specific bug.

      Add screenshots and the details of all the relevant items, so we can track down the problem.

       

      Thanks,