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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Same report PBIX, Different Shared Dataset data sources, Duplicated Reports in workspace. Why?

Has anyone encountered a reason and/or solution to why deploying an identical PBIX, but pointing at different data sources (in this particular testing of scenarios, I used 3 Shared Datasets) is creat...
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GilbertQ
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

I have seen this in the past, what I did was to download the PBIX from the service, edit it and then upload.

 

If it does not prompt you to overwrite it will create a new one.


The reason is in the PBIX file there is a unique guid that identifies each report and for some reason this has changed.

 

You can at your own risk, change the .PBIX into a .zip and compare the GUID and make it the same as the existing report?

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

This had crossed my mind as a last resort. I just haven't had a chance to give it a go yet. I'll keep you updated if this works.

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    GilbertQ So here is my question, how we even know what GUID is going to be changed and to what? There will be another Unique GUID assigned to a report when it is actually published to the service, which will not reflect any built in GUID into the PBIX file itself. So how/where would we choose this GUID to chance in the PBIX by unzipping to try and get this to actually replace the existing report on the PBI Service?

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      GilbertQ
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      5 years ago

      From my understanding you want to keep the same report, so you would need to get the existing GUID and update it in your PBIX file.