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Strizzolo's avatar
Strizzolo
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6 years ago
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Incremental Refresh download .pbix

Hi, I have a question regarding Incremental Refresh. I know that, once published on the service and refreshed, I cannot download the dataset. Is there a workaround? Can I disable, someway, Incremen...
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  • Icey's avatar
    Icey
    6 years ago

    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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Anonymous
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6 years ago

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.

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lbendlin
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6 years ago

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.