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Hi Rosy081,
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Fabric Community.
I understand that you are experiencing issues downloading the report after deploying it via Deployment Pipelines. Unfortunately, this is a known limitation in Power BI Service, as downloading a .pbix file after deployment is not supported.
- Power BI disables the download option for reports when they are deployed via pipelines and linked to a dataset in a different workspace.
- Autobinding ensures the report remains connected to the dataset in the target stage but does not permit downloading the report.
For additional information, please refer to the official documentation:
The Microsoft Fabric deployment pipelines process - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
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Thank you.
Super UserHi Rosy081
In Power BI, when a report and its dataset (semantic model) are in the same workspace, you can easily download the report as a .pbix file. However, when the dataset and report are in different workspaces, the download report option gets disabled due to Power BI’s security and governance policies. This happens because the report is now considered a thin report that connects to a dataset residing in another workspace. To enable downloading, you need to ensure that both the dataset and report are in a workspace where you have Build permissions on the dataset. Additionally, if the dataset resides in a Premium workspace, check that the “Allow report viewers to export data” option is enabled in the dataset settings. As a workaround, you can manually recreate the report by connecting to the shared dataset from Power BI Desktop and republishing it. However, Power BI does not currently allow direct download of thin reports from the service when the dataset is in a separate workspace.
Thanks alot for the response however, the issue is that this report is deployed using deployment pipelines from test to prod and its a limitation of PowerBI deployment pipelines that the .pbix file is not supported after deployment. I read this in documentation after facing this issue. If you could help me with a workaround on how to enable it after deploying, that could be very helpful.