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Power BI Service Cross Workspace Reports Sync
Hello Power BI Community, I have a situation where I've created two workspaces, A and B, in the Power BI service: Workspace A: Contains a dataflow and several reports connected to this dataflow. ...
Can't do that. You need to duplicate the semantic model and then change the connection details in the copy.
j_ocean
Helper V
Helper VReports connect to datasets/sematic models, I assume that's what you mean.
A report copied or moved from Workspace A to Workspace B will still connect to the original semantic model. If you switch to lineage view, there should be a marker referencing it with a little link icon on it identifying/sending you to the model's workspace.
- The DATA will keep in sync with the model through this connection.
- The report DESIGN will not--if you copied a report, changing the color scheme in Workspace A will not propagte to Workspace B.
- Archiving the report becomes more difficult, as reports which originated or which read data across workspace lines can't be downloaded as a pbix for archiving.
You really should be using Desktop for building reports that are used in production. Web editing is good for one-off studies, your personal playground, and such, but is really unsuited for enterprise scale reporting.