Rebind reports into users' personal workspaces

[k63]

I currently have a semantic model in production that users can access to create their own reports and save them in their own workspace (my workspace). This semantic model is in import mode.

We are going to switch to Direct Lake, as we recently migrated to Fabric. So I am rebuilding exactly the same semantic model, but in Direct Lake. From what I understand, I cannot overwrite the existing dataset with the new one because of the connection mode.

So I am going to publish a new identical semantic model and I would like to link all the reports that were on the old semantic model to the new one. This works fine for shared workspaces, but not for personal workspaces.

I used https://learn. microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report-in-group for the shared workspace and tried https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/rebind-report for the personal workspace, but it only seems to work for my personal workspace.

Any ideas to do that ? 

[v-venuppu]

Hi @k63 ,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

Thank you @collinq for the prompt response.

I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided and resolve the issue..?Please let us know if you need any further assistance.We are happy to help.

Thank you.

[collinq · Accepted solution]

HI @k63 ,

I believe that this is not possible - you can not rebinding reports in personal workspaces ("My Workspace") via the REST API becuase it is restricted unless the API call is made by the owner of that personal workspace.   Shared workspaces work differently and you can use the Rebind Report In Group API to rebind reports across datasets and workspaces, as long as you have the necessary permissions.

Here is a couple articles about how to do the rebinding:
How to Rebind a Power BI Report to a different Semantic Model using Power BI Studio - FourMoo | Micr...
Rebind (Switch) Reports to different Power BI Semantic Model – Hari BI Academy