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sonalidhar87
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Duplicate reports after uploading existing report on Power BI web

My reports get duplicated when i reupload an existing one. 
Workflow: 
- Create a report from scratch online using the exiting data set & save in the same workspace as data set

- download the report created online and make some adjustments in Power Bi desktop. 
- save the report and upload/publish back to the same workspace
- It creates two copies of the same report and also creates dataset & dashboard files.

 

How can we avoid the duplicate copy of the report ?

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biguy34965
Frequent Visitor

This most definitely needs to be solved officially. I see many people with this same issue, and I am one of them!

Vicentiu
Frequent Visitor

I have same issue. Any solving @sonalidhar87  ?

 - if I do search with the name of the report I see old report and new one:

      - new report opens

      - old report does not open, but still did not should see him; instead should have been overwritten by new one

edhans
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If those are thin reports and the dataset they are connected to are different (Dataset in PROD vs Dataset in TEST) then it will create a 2nd report vs overwritting.

This is by design, and I don't like it. But it isn't a bug.



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edhans, I am having exactly this issue - trying to re-point a report from old PROD dataset (SSAS on-premise) to new PROD dataset (PBI Premium) using PBI Desktop, then publishing, will not overwrite the published report but creates a duplicate. Several hundred colleagues use this report so I don't want the url to change. How are we supposed to re-point such a report?

No the dataset are same they are linked to same data set. I downloaded this file, opened and did an update & uploaded back. 

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