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Advocate IIIncremental Refresh download .pbix
Hi Strizzolo ,
One workaround, you can turn off Incremental refresh on Power BI Desktop, and then republish it to Power BI Service and replace the earlier report. After this, you can download the PBIX file.
Best Regards,
Icey
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Community SupportHi Strizzolo ,
One workaround, you can turn off Incremental refresh on Power BI Desktop, and then republish it to Power BI Service and replace the earlier report. After this, you can download the PBIX file.
Best Regards,
Icey
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Strizzolo what happens if something happens to your desktop version and you need the one that is in the cloud to make changes to it? So once you upload is it locked and lost to you? This seems like a major disadvantage to me.
zuheirashraf17We just about to implement the incremental refresh option. But this issue has stop us from proceed to implement it. Being able to download it from the cloud bring a huge advantage to the team-based Power BI report development. When the report is published to the service and it is locked and lost forever in the cloud is not collaboration friendly I'd say.
Hoping to find some alternative on this options.
- lbendlin
Super User
You should have your own version control system (until the Power BI team implements it). At a minimum you should export your Power BI desktop file to a .pbit (template) and do it often. Place that .pbit into a Github folder and you have the start of a solution.
If you want to be a little more fancy you can unpack the .pbit (which is an archive, just like the .pbix - with out the data) and run a little powershell script to create usable (readable files with the schema and formulas etc).
Or you coud go full ALM Toolkit - but that's probably overkill.
