Publishing / Updating Power BI Report Programmatically

[tdouglas]

Hi all,

I'm new so forgive me if I am a bit clueless but I am hoping someone can help me figure out if there is a viable solution to the problem I am trying to solve.

I am trying to find out if there is a way that I can publish a report to the Power BI Service from the desktop version programmatically through Windows PowerShell or some other means.

I know that there is a method to push updates to the Power BI Service through PowerShell, and I have done that but it comes with its own problems like inconsistent results and a limit of 8 updates per day.

If anyone knows of a better way to update data more than 8 times per day through the service and 8 times (if that) through the PowerShell update push I would love to know.

Thanks - Taylor

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

With Power BI Premium you can update 48 times a day, if that helps.

As far as programatically publishing from the PBI desktop, i think you might be going outside of what Microsoft intends what users should be capable of.  I can't imagine they would be happy for you to circumvent their restrictions.

[tdouglas]

Thanks for the reply Ross73312,

I figured that I might be overreaching a bit, but I thought I'd ask around anyways.