Editing Data Model in a Live App

[MikeDav]

I am stuck and could use some help...

- I created a workspace with a set of reports and a data model. We shall call this DEV.
- I deployed these to an app and it worked. That workspace is called APP.

I wanted to make a change to the data model, which I cannot do in the APP workspace - its greyed out. So I went back to my original DEV workspace. Sadly, I have deleted the reports and left only the model, as I thought I was done and would use the new APP workspace going forward. big mistake.

- Copies of the APP workspace reports dropped into the DEV workspace still link to the APP data model, not the 'local' one.. 
- Downloading the data model from DEV and uploading to APP workspaces respectively doesnt work. It just creates a duplicate. 

A - How do I get the report pages in DEV to link to the old 'DEV' data model? They are identical. 
B - Going forward, if I change the data model do I have to deploy a whole new version of the app to the APP workspace every time?

 

[MikeDav · Accepted solution]

There was no way for me to download the data model from the APP workspace, so I gave up and rebuilt the app as a new instance. Thanks anyway

[lbendlin]

Download the PBIX from the "APP"  workspace (weird naming, btw).  Open in Power BI Desktop. Change the data sources as needed. Upload into the DEV workspace.

[MikeDav]

Yeah they're not really called that, just for explanation 😀.

Issue is the download option is greyed out for the model in the APP workspace. So can't download it. 

[lbendlin]

Which of these limitations are you hitting?

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