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Hi, I need a quick help with a problem, please.
My report (from desktop) works good in development, but when I deploy it to test (and prod) it doesn't work. Visualizations doesn't show data, and there are just the titles of data tables but not any data in.
I am not be able to create gateways. How can I get my deployment pipeline's test and production works as well?
Data comes from SharePoint list (company.sharepoint.com/sites/folder).
What can I do?
Okay, now it goes to more interesting.
I deployed once again and refreshed data in TEST, now data shows there. But still report doesn't work (visualizations doesn't work as they need to and as they do in dev). I downloaded report again and now it gives ""There are pending changes in your queries that haven't been applied. [Apply changes] [Discard changes]". And if I apply, report brokes (every visualizations falls). And then there is not any data in whole report.
Otherwise if I click Discard, it asks "Discard your changes? You've changed:
- 1st table
- 2nd table
- 3rd table
etc. (there is more tables than I have in this report). And if I click Discard, it seems report works as it should.
Could someone please help me out 😄
Do you also have a pipeline for the datasets?
What? Different one? No. I have always done just one pipeline (which have reports and data). But this is my first time to use sharepoint list as data source..
This pipeline is something where i had a previous report also (to the same customer) so I thought it eould be great to use it. But then this problem appears..
To try to debug it, download the report that is broken (the one in TEST, right?) and see if anything changed in the data sources / which dataset it is connected to and see exactly what is broken. Then you will find out what happened.
Hi, thank you for your response.
When I download Test version, it gives me three warnings/errors:
"There are pending changes in your queries that haven't been applied. [Apply changes] [Discard changes]"
"One or more calculated objects need to be manually refreshed [Refresh now]"
"Some of the tables have incomplete or no data. [Refresh now]"
And when I go to Data source settings --> Data sources in current file --> There is not any data sources.. "We didn't find any data sources in this file."
But this is the problem; WHY my data does not move from dev to test when I deploy it? Normally it does (when using excel, web (sharepoint) etc.)
This is from Microsoft:
"My visual broke after deploying a dataset or a dataflow
Cause: Datasets and dataflows are Fabric items that store data and contain both data and metadata. During deployment, only the metadata is copied while the data isn't. As a result, after deployment the dataset or dataflow might not have any data and a report visual that's relying on this data, will appear broken.
Solution: To solve this problem, refresh the dataflow and then refresh the dataset in the target stage."
But this solution also has just "create a gateway" as many same problem's solutions in BI community does as well. But unfortunately it is not solution in my case 😕 So need something else to fix it..
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