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biswedishdevil
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9 years ago
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Download .pbix greyed out

Good morning!   I've created a report in the Power BI Service. Now I want to publish it to anotther app workgroup. Is there a direct way to do it?   As I couldn't see a direct way, my idea was to...
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  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi biswedishdevil,

     

    You an go to My Workspace, then create a content pack, publish to that specific app group follow Create and publish an organizational content pack (tutorial).

     

    Then in the app workspace, assume you have edit permission, then you can use Get Data-> My organization to get content pack, the report will display in that app workspace.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

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mvanderlee
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7 years ago

Can we just call PBI an Alpha at this point? I've had nothing but headaches from this **bleep** product. 

It's over a year later and this stupid limitation is still there.

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nirvana_moksh
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7 years ago

I totally agree with Anonymous, the use cases for building reports directly on the Service are very limited and mostly these are for "Power Users" to whom some kind of PBI content that is created on the Desktop level is published/delivered on the Service and they are deriving variants of the original report that was developed on PBI Desktop. 

 

Also, can't expect a product to work some other way when it is explicitly mentioned that it works one way. Documentation will be counter intutive if that is how products were to work.

 

 

  • John_L_Edwards's avatar
    John_L_Edwards
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    6 years ago

    With all due respect, that's a load of hooey.  Why on Earth would this product exist without an ability to export your source code from the web version?  This sounds like a decision made by the sales & marketing team.

     

    I had to learn on the web version, now have the desktop version.  All my prior content is stranded on the web version.  Graying out the button that says "Download a .pbix copy" was just one more way of thumbing their nose at me.

     

    Clearly NOT SOLVED.  This tool needs a LOT of work.  There's no unity of design.  Typical Microsoft product where they've thrown 10,000 parts into a pile and expect it to be a running car afterwards.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      John_L_Edwards I can certainly understand the frustration, but to use your own analogy this is more like you jumping into a brand new car not understanding how it works and blaming the manufacturer for your accident because you didn't read the manual and operate it correctly. Since the creation of the product, the bulk of everything a report author needs to do is in the Desktop, the Service currently provides a fraction of the functionality required to produce reports. We all get frustrated, and we're all here to help each other out. No need to start slamming the product or the team that supports it.

      • John_L_Edwards's avatar
        John_L_Edwards
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        6 years ago

        More like jumping into a new car and discovering (undocumented) that it can't travel across Pennsylvania's border with Maryland for no discernible reason.*

         

        This tool really has some work to do on conceptual unity.  If a feature isn't available don't gray it out.  Gray-Out means you're not in a proper context, not you can never do that.  If you want me to be positive I'll make it a feature request -- work on better feedback in the interface.

         

        * Which may indeed happen with some cars in the near future!