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nandic
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6 months ago
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Deployment pipeline not detecting report changes

Today we found out that deployment pipeline doesn't work properly. Business user informed us he made changes on the report, but when checking deployment pipeline, it doesn't show changes at all. ...
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  • V-yubandi-msft's avatar
    V-yubandi-msft
    5 months ago

    Hi nandic ,

    Thank you for clarifying. Deployment pipelines are able to reliably detect changes when a report or semantic model is republished from Power BI Desktop. However, if changes are made directly in Power BI Service such as editing titles, filters, or formatting these are considered service-side metadata changes and may not always trigger change detection in deployment pipelines.

     

    This means you might see the change indicator appear inconsistently when making edits in the service.

    To ensure consistent detection in the pipeline, it is best to republish the report from Power BI Desktop before deploying.

     

    Thank You.

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V-yubandi-msft
Community Support
5 months ago

Hi nandic ,

Thank you for clarifying. Deployment pipelines are able to reliably detect changes when a report or semantic model is republished from Power BI Desktop. However, if changes are made directly in Power BI Service such as editing titles, filters, or formatting these are considered service-side metadata changes and may not always trigger change detection in deployment pipelines.

 

This means you might see the change indicator appear inconsistently when making edits in the service.

To ensure consistent detection in the pipeline, it is best to republish the report from Power BI Desktop before deploying.

 

Thank You.

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Thomas_G_medi
Frequent Visitor
5 months ago

Hello V-yubandi-msft, 

 

we are facing the same issue and we are following the way your are recommending. 

We are publishing the report from Power BI Desktop to dev workspace and then we are deploying to production via deployment pipeline. 

For us it was not detecting any change. The change we made was on page level filter. Is it posible that it simply doesn´t consider the filters while checking for changes?

At the end in production our filter changes are not displayed even if we have them in dev and are publishing to prod via pipeline.

 

Best regards, Thomas

  • V-yubandi-msft's avatar
    V-yubandi-msft
    Community Support
    5 months ago

    If you republish the report from Power BI Desktop to the Dev workspace, the deployment pipeline should normally pick up the change. Page level filter changes are included in the report, so they should be reflected after republishing.

     

    If the pipeline isn’t detecting the change and the update isn’t showing in Production, it could be a temporary issue. You can try republishing the report to Dev and redeploying through the pipeline.

     

    If it still doesn’t work, consider raising a support ticket for further investigation.

    Create a Fabric and Power BI Support Ticket - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     

    Thank You.