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Anonymous
Not applicable
3 years ago

Power BI with Git. Is Visual Studio code mandatory?

I'm testing out using GIT for source control with Power BI.  I've saved out a project into PBIP and placed it into a C:\ repository folder.  My computer is already configured with GIT for windows and...
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RuiRomanoMS
Microsoft Employee
2 years ago

Sorry that you are having a bad experience, but looks like the report.json got into a faulty situation or there is a bug with the PBIP format and custom visuals.

 

Can you please share with me a version of the FlowVisual custom visual .pbiviz file? Or a version of your PBIX/PBIP?

 

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Jerminator
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

I have this same issue.

It looks like the issue occrus only with Custom Visuals. I have multiple reports that I am converting to pbip files and loading into an ADO repo that is connected to my PBI workspace. The reports that do not use custom visuals have had no problems. However, any report with custom visuals run into this issue.

 

I can see the CustomVisuals folder in my .Report directory:

 

and I see all the custom visual files within that folder:

It seems like when syncing with PBI workspace, it is unable to locate the files in the /CustomVisuals/