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SusieBentley
Advocate II
Advocate IIOneDrive Refresh (link to .pbix saved in OneDrive/Teams/SharePoint)
I have a .pbix file saved in Teams, so I'm using OneDrive refresh to update the report in the Service when changes are made to the Power BI Desktop file. For an unknown reason, the link has been ...
- Hi there
I think once it is lost you have to re-create it all again.
What I would suggest is to use the Shared Datasets functionality in order to make sure other datasets rely on the shared dataset.
I personally have stayed away from the OneDrive method for this reason if something gets lots it has to be re-created.
Here is a blog post by my friend Seth explaining all the details: https://powerbi.tips/2019/09/updating-pbix-files-in-sharepoint-dos-donts/
GilbertQ
Super User
Super UserHi there
I think once it is lost you have to re-create it all again.
What I would suggest is to use the Shared Datasets functionality in order to make sure other datasets rely on the shared dataset.
I personally have stayed away from the OneDrive method for this reason if something gets lots it has to be re-created.
Here is a blog post by my friend Seth explaining all the details: https://powerbi.tips/2019/09/updating-pbix-files-in-sharepoint-dos-donts/
I think once it is lost you have to re-create it all again.
What I would suggest is to use the Shared Datasets functionality in order to make sure other datasets rely on the shared dataset.
I personally have stayed away from the OneDrive method for this reason if something gets lots it has to be re-created.
Here is a blog post by my friend Seth explaining all the details: https://powerbi.tips/2019/09/updating-pbix-files-in-sharepoint-dos-donts/
- SusieBentley
Thanks for your reply, and confirming my fear that there was no alternative but to republish!
It's a shame that there isn't a way to re-establish the connection, as it's a great feature when a .pbix file is being used in multiple workspaces (i.e. update the file once rather than republishing several times).
thanks again...
- GilbertQHi there
Yeah that was good before Shared datasets, but I would recommend the Shared datasets route going forward.
