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sasdfasdfsad
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3 months ago
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How does PowerBI assign a ReportID when published and can the ID be changed?

I have a report "Quarterly Sales".   I published it, it has an ID, the report is deployed and there are multiple places in our org that have links to the report.   I went to update the report wi...
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  • v-moharafi-msft's avatar
    v-moharafi-msft
    3 months ago

    Hi sasdfasdfsad ,
    Thank you for the additional information.

    The key detail is that the report was repointed to a different semantic model before it was republished. Since there are now two reports with the same name in the workspace, Power BI appears to have created a new report artifact instead of updating the existing one, which would explain the different ReportIDs.

    To better understand why this occurred, could you confirm:

    • Was the report originally connected to one semantic model and then republished after being switched to a different semantic model?

    • Do both reports appear to be connected to different semantic models in the workspace?

    • During publishing, were you prompted to replace the existing report?

    These details will help determine whether the semantic model change influenced the publish behavior or whether Power BI treated the report as a new artifact for another reason.

    Best Regards,
    Abdul Rafi

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Lodha_Jaydeep
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3 months ago

Hi sasdfasdfsad,

 

Normally, this is not possible that the new ReportID in the URL when publish the same report with the same name and in the same workspace. Unless you deployed it using (Publish without Replace, Save As + new publish, different workspace, or pipeline/deploy as new)

Can you confrom in the 2nd deployment of the same report it asked you to replace and you have replace it on the power bi Desktop.

 

As of now you can do,

Delete the new version from the power bi service but make sure to have copy in your machine (Delete both model and report if both new created)

Publish in a way PowerBI desktop => Home => Publish and hit replace when it asked. Chnage your Datasource settings if needed.

 

I hope this will definetly help, please consider as an accepted solution or give some kudos.

Thanks