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m-colbert
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1 year ago
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Unable to Deploy Thin Report After Deploying Backwards

In the process of setting up deployment pipelines, deployed content from production back to test. I have a dozen or so thin reports that use a dataset from another workspace, that is also using a dep...
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    m-colbert
    1 year ago

    Hi Poojara_D12 ,

     I did additiopnal digging and my resolution was to download the copy from production, open up the pbix in Desktop and change the connection to the shared dataset from production to test. Once this was done, I republished to the test workspace. This time is no longer creates a new item seeing it's the same report and the download file option is enabled again. 

     

    I had not thought of applying parameters to connect to the dataset dynamically. I'm not sure how to do that in the UI. Could probably figure it out using PBIP format. Do you have an example?

     

    Thanks

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GilbertQ
Super User
1 year ago

Hi m-colbert 

 

As far as I am aware, when working with deployment pipelines, you always have to deploy from dev test prod. When you go the other way, you get into these kind of issues. So what I would recommend doing is making sure you make your changes in dev and then promote it all the way through.

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GilbertQ
Super User
1 year ago

Another option is to use Semantic-Link-Labs python notebook where you can swap the connection between a report and semantic model.

 

Or you can use the Visual Studio plug in called "Power BI Studio" in which you can also swap the connection between the report and semantic model.

 

By doing either of the methods above you can link your report to the semantic model in test.