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Editing powerBi report that has been published

Hello,   I am facing the challenge of making changes (powerQuery, measures) to the report, when report has been already published. Normally what I have been doing --> is to download the Pbix file ...
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    vanessafvg
    5 years ago

    no as i said, this isnt a tool like excel or word, its not a typical office application.  For development you need to use power bi desktop.    You either change it in the service as you have been or you do dev in the development tool which is what is recommended.

     

    There are better ways to manage your situation though, if you are in a development stage of your dashboard, when you demo just use the desktop tool to demo.  Keep a copy of power bi in a place where you can keep the latest version (and store previous versions if you want) as well as giving access to your manager to make changes.

     

    For example can also store a copy of the pbix or a pbit (template) in onedrive which will have version control.

    here is a an article you can read on the topic

    https://www.biinsight.com/power-bi-governance-good-practices-part-2-version-control-with-onedrive-teams-and-sharepoint-online/

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

vanessafvg thanks for you reply!

 

I wanna do it because:
Sometimes before presenting a report I want to make some quick changes (e.g. colors, positions, names) and view the report in the report view- powerBi service enables me to do it quickly.

Also sometimes my supervisor wants to have access to change some things- so she can change colors, names etc.

 

Then when done I have to download this report and make changes in DAX, pquery etc.

 

Is it possible to do something with it?

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vanessafvg
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5 years ago

no as i said, this isnt a tool like excel or word, its not a typical office application.  For development you need to use power bi desktop.    You either change it in the service as you have been or you do dev in the development tool which is what is recommended.

 

There are better ways to manage your situation though, if you are in a development stage of your dashboard, when you demo just use the desktop tool to demo.  Keep a copy of power bi in a place where you can keep the latest version (and store previous versions if you want) as well as giving access to your manager to make changes.

 

For example can also store a copy of the pbix or a pbit (template) in onedrive which will have version control.

here is a an article you can read on the topic

https://www.biinsight.com/power-bi-governance-good-practices-part-2-version-control-with-onedrive-teams-and-sharepoint-online/