Need Confirmation: Effect of publishing PBIX file to Power BI Online on user created content

[shawnprodgers]

Hello community,

I tried searching for this answer, but did not find an adequate answer while searching. Can I get a confirmation of the effect on user created content on Power BI Online when you re-publish (with updates) a PBIX file that the users referenced when they created their content? Is it affected? Deleted? Only affected when the source data or calculations referenced by the user created content are changed?

Appreciate any and all links to previous posts, white papers and insights,

Shawn

[v-micsh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi shawnprodgers,

Have you seen this article?

Publish from Power BI Desktop

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When you re-publish your Power BI Desktop file, the dataset in your Power BI site will be replaced with the updated dataset from the Power BI Desktop file.

This is all pretty straight forward, but there are a few things you should know:

• If you already have two or more datasets in Power BI with the same name as the Power BI Desktop file, publish could fail. Make sure you have only one dataset in Power BI with the same name. You can also rename the file and publish, creating a new dataset with same name as the file.

• If you rename or delete a column or measure, any visualizations you already have in Power BI with that field could be broken. 

• Power BI ignores some format changes of existing columns. For example, if you change a column’s format  from 0.25 to 25%.

• If you have a refresh schedule configured for your existing dataset in Power BI and you add new data sources to your file and then re-publish, you’ll have to sign into them in Manage Data Sources prior to the next scheduled refresh.

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For the referenced content, the visual would be broken, showing an error message about can't get the data.

Please post back if you need any further assistance on this topic.

Regards

[Greg_Deckler]

It will be affected depending upon what changes you made to the data model. If you removed a column that they created a visualization on, that visualization is going to display an error for example.