Duplicated Power Report on Service after changing dataset

[ledders2023]

Hi everyone

I have a Power BI report built in the Desktop app, lets call it Dashboard. The Report uses a semantic model published on the service as its dataset. Let's call this model Model v1.  The Dashboard report is published on the service with its own unique URL link which many colleagues in my business are using to view the report.

The dataset Model v1 is not a particularly descriptive name, so I republished this model to the service and called it Dashboard Model.  I then repointed the Dashboard report to the new identical model, Dashboard Model, in the desktop app. So far, so good.

Now when I publish the Dashboard report to the service on the same workspace, instead of replacing the exisiting Dashboard report, it creates a new report called Dashboard on the service with a differenct URL, so I have two reports in the service called Dashboard - one using the dataset Model v1 and the other using Dashboard Model.

Is there anyway to overwrite/replace the exisitng Dashboard report when the datamodel changes?  I want to avoid if possible having to provide a new URL to all users of the report.

Thank you

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi @ledders2023 

One of the ways you can do this is to use the rebind API, which is found here.

Reports - Rebind Report In Group - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

Or you can use this in Visual Studio Code Release of Power BI Studio v2.0 (VSCode extension) – Gerhard Brueckl on BI & Data (gbrueckl.at)

[ledders2023]

Thank you so much. This worked a treat!