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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
    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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sasdfasdfsad
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3 months ago

There are two reports now in the same workspace with the same name.

The only difference is I changed the data source in the report. The report name didn't change though, I upated the report to point to a new semantic model.

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v-moharafi-msft
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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