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Anonymous
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4 years ago

"multiple explorations link to the same report" - error when updating an App from Premium workspace

We had an error all through the morning when trying to update an App.  Premium workspace, two reports, one dataset, publishing with just one of the reports.  App previous worked, PBIX was updated in the OneDrive sync, Update App kept giving the following error.  It seems the error resolved when the developer uploaded a new version of the PBIX to the OneDrive folder, and, oddly enough, the OneDrive sync failed, but that seemed to fix the application.  Searched for the term "multiple explorations", did not find any results with Power BI.  Why did this happen?  How can we avoid having it happen again?  What does the error message mean?  Is this documented anywhere?

 

Cannot update the App because multiple explorations link to the same report.

 

Remove corrupt report(s) from workspace and then try updating again.

 

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When I took Report A out of the App and added Report B, the App published without problem.  Reverting back to A, same errors. 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Unlike a dataset refresh during which Power BI imports data from a data source into a dataset, OneDrive refresh synchronizes datasets and reports with their source files.

     

    Power BI performs refresh based on an item ID in OneDrive, so be thoughtful when considering updates versus replacement. When you set a OneDrive file as the data source, Power BI references the item ID of the file when it performs the refresh.

     

    Consider the following scenario: you have a master file A and a production copy of that file B, and you configure OneDrive refresh for file B. If you then copy file A over file B, the copy operation deletes the old file B and creates a new file B with a different item ID, which breaks OneDrive refresh. To avoid that situation, you can instead upload and replace file B, which keeps its same item ID.

     

    You can move the file to another location (using drag and drop, for example) and refresh will continue to work because Power BI still knows the file ID. However, if you copy that file to another location, a new instance of the file and a new fileID is created. Therefore, your Power BI file reference is no longer valid and refresh will fail.

     

    Hope it helps,


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