How to recover deleted reports? Should we have a recovery bin like we had in SharePoint?

[SDP]

Here is one scenario I am concerned with. Say you have a workspace group where several members of your team are creating and modifying a collection of reports. All reports are created off a single dataset that is created inside the workspace group. Over time you will accumulate many reports. Now imagine one of your power users creates a new dataset to test something and when they are done they go to delete the dataset but instead of deleting the test dataset they delete the dataset all of your reports are tied to. You just lost months of report creation, how do you recover from that? Update your resume?

In general, how do we recover deleted items, specifically reports?

[sadafriaz]

any solution discovered uptill now ?

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@SDP Create a management process for report building.

Currently, the only way to manage this is via creating reports in the desktop and either storing those centrally in a OneDrive location, or something like Team Foundation Server. Where you will have a copy/version of reports that have been built.

So in your scenerio, the individual would just spin up a Desktop and not worry about it.

And your worst case is covered with a "backup"

We are all looking forward to some sort of version control or more admin level features in the future...

[hnehme]

It is a big drawback, the same happened for me, at least a backup for last saved version should be enabled for users.

[vishal0soni]

This happened with us as well, but luckily effort was not in months, and only one dataset attached with only few reports was gone. BUT....we still have many dashboards, reports and datasets running only on Power BI.com.

When we started working, we (team spread across geographical boundaries and timezones) thought of using only Online version for better collaboration. But now when we know about the risks of all-online datasets, how do we fall back onto PowerBI desktop versions from the online version? What we would like to do is to have a .PBX file of all current work, and then onwards we can start working and sharing that file in One Drive instead of using everything on PowerBi.com. Is there any way of doing this now?