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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Linked PBI reports in workspaces

Hello!  I have a few reports that are the same across a few apps so they are now linked  so they update at once.   The issue im having now is I made some formatting updates to the report and when I load it to the main workspace I see the chnages, but the other 2 workspaces that its linked/related too dont update the formatting changes.  How do I go about getting the link reports updated?

 

Thank you

Eric

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Have  you copied the reports  from  one workspace to other workspace ? if it is the case  the  format changes of report in one workspace won't reflect in other workspace 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Yes I think they were copied, that way when we update onbe worspace it would update all the others.  How do I go about updating the formatting on the reports that its linked too?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    hi Anonymous - If you have copied reports from one workspace to another then making changes to the parent report will not automatically reflect in the workspaces where the report was originally copied over to. 

    You can automate the publishing of reports to multiple workspaces using the Power BI REST API as mentioned in the documentation below: 

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/fr-fr/blog/upload-a-local-pbix-file-using-the-import-api/

     

    Another point is that reports that are copied over to multiple workspace still share the same underlying data model so any data model or data changes will reflect in ALL reports BUT report level visual changes will not automatically reflect across all copied workspaces. 

     

    Please mark the above comment as a solution to help others find it more quickly. Also please provide a 👍 if my comment helped with solving your issue. Thanks!

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Hey Anonymous thanks for the answer and link.... So with how it is setup now how would I go about updating the visuals on the other copied reports to the most recent changes in the main report?

      • v-lili6-msft's avatar
        v-lili6-msft
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        5 years ago

        hi Anonymous 

        To my knowledge, it couldn't achieve in power bi for now, since you have copied the report to another workspace, these copied reports are separate in different workspace, so any update in one report will not link to others, the only way is that you delete the copied reports and copy the main report to another workspace again.

         

        Regards,

        Lin

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Topic is still open can anyone advise if this is possible?  If I have the same report on 2 apps and they share the dataset how do you go about updating the report if you make and visual changes so they reflect on both the reports?

    • v-lili6-msft's avatar
      v-lili6-msft
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      5 years ago

      hi  Anonymous 

      To my knowledge, this is available for your requirement in power bi for now. You need to update the reports separately.

      you could submit your idea in here to make it coming soon.

       

       

      Regards,

      Lin