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Kurren's avatar
Kurren
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3 years ago
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PBIP - can I have one folder per project?

In the blog post it says i can have "Multiple Reports and Datasets at same folder". Can I instead have one folder per report + dataset?  Eg if I have a Sales report + dataset and a HR report + datas...
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  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    3 years ago

    Hey Kurren ,

     

    I'm pretty sure that this is not possible at the current moment, because a workspace does not know the concept of folders.

     

    Regards,

    Tom

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RuiRomanoMS
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2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.
Its not possible at the moment, but its something we are considering to improve.
Until we support folders in workspace, the problem is not reading the folders but writing back from workspace to git.
I'm curious to understand your thoughts on this:
- If we let you connect and recursively read all folders, what should happen when you create a new report in the service? To which folder it should go?

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Kurren
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2 years ago

To be honest writing back to git from the workspace is not usually how developers do things in a CI environment. We would work from power bi desktop, commit the dashboard to a git repo, push to azure devops and have the build pipeline automatically deploy to the workspace. 

 

Ideally you should have a workspace to either be read-only from the git repo (to support what most developers would do with azure devops and continuous integration) or read-write as it is now.

 

As to your question: if a new report is created directly in the workspace it could just be added to the top level of the repository as it is now.