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Publishing from Desktop overwrite report
Hi, azizdoghmi
According to your description, you want to publish a new report to the same workspace from the Power BI desktop and don’t add a new dataset in the workspace, I think you can try to connect to the dataset in the desktop and publish to the same workspace. After my test, this method will add a new report to the workspace without adding the same dataset with another name, you can take a look at my method:
- Connect to the dataset in desktop:
- Then create the report, click save as to name the report with a different name
- Then go to the Service, I found the report is added and the dataset is same as before:
And you can achieve what you want. For more information, please check this document:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-report-lifecycle-datasets
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Community Support Team _Robert Qin
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When you save as with a different name, you have a new dataset and a new report.
This is not what I need to have.
For example, I have a dataset V1 that I publish. It creates a report "V1" thaht I rename "reportv1".
If I add a measure to the dataset v1, I have to republish.
- If I keep the name V1, it overwrites the "reportv1"
- If I rename the dataset V2, I have now 2 datasets and two reports "reportv1" and "v2".
I need to have only one dataset that is not overwriting the existing report but creatin a new one when publishing.
thks