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julsr
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2 years ago
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PowerBI Source Control using Deployment pipeline

Hi Everyone,   We've implemented Deployment Pipelines in our PowerBI Service; this process is the one we have right now: I'm wondering if it's possible to add a Source Control version in Pow...
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    julsr
    2 years ago

    Thanks AlexisOlson! I researched PBI Tools, and it looks cool, but in the end, I found PowerBI deployment Pipelines meet my requirement to have Source Control within PowerBI:

    - We have a history of changes

    - We can see the differences between old and new report

    - All changes must be approved to move from one stage to another (dev>test>prod)

     

    The feature that I don't know if we have is the rollback to a previous version, but I think this saves us a lot of time.

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AlexisOlson
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2 years ago

I strongly recommend reading the Data Goblins series on version control:

https://data-goblins.com/power-bi/version-control-pt5

 

There's some new stuff around development pipelines and .pbip files that's come out since that series but it's still super useful. Personally, I track TE folder structure in Git but don't use pipelines or pbi-tools yet.

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julsr
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2 years ago

Thanks for sharing this! Why are you not using the Deployment Pipelines? And what do you mean with "TE Folders"? 

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    AlexisOlson
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    2 years ago

    The Tabular Editor folder structure is covered in the series.

     

    Deployment pipelines didn't exist when I first started doing version control on Power BI files and I haven't had the need to set up that formal process yet. It would be nice in theory but I haven't had a strong enough reason to change my process to add the extra overhead.