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tommy_g
Helper V
5 years ago
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Paginated Report development cycle - using the Service with Report Builder and multiple sub-reports

My traditional Power BI development mode: author in Desktop. PBIX file is saved and versioned to OneDrive. Simple. Publishing is always a one-way process "up" to the Service. With Paginated Reports,...
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    lbendlin
    5 years ago

    #1 - it's all you.  Get your repository, clone it, push the changes etc.  Nothing is built in.

     

    #2 - We've been asking for this for a while. Maybe it will come some day.  In the meantime ALM Toolkit and Deployment Pipelines are some (weaker) stop gap alternatives.

     

    Keep in mind that RDL files are XML with a weird file extension. You can ingest them in git directly. PBIX (or better PBIT) are ZIP files that you first need to extract, and then you have a bunch of JSON.

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lbendlin
Super User
5 years ago

Export template files into a git repository, and often.

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tommy_g
Helper V
5 years ago

Thanks for the advice. I need clarification. The files I am speaking about are PBIX and RDL "source" files under active development. I assume your reference to "template" is the generic case. However, my options in PBI vary between "save as", "save a copy" and "download a copy". 

Question #1: am I missing a link to a git repository for source control as I might use with the new setup in Visual Studio?

Question #2: does response imply there is no native ability in the PBI Service itself, every backup / restore operation involves copying to/from external locations, either a git repository or the simpler OneDrive versioning? I suspect no, but want to get your take (or deeper insights) before making this conclusion.