Bringing old version of Power BI to new version

[admin_xlsior]

Hello guys,

I was working on an old version of Power BI Desktop, it is August 2020 version. Well long story short, now I want to use the latest one, the February 2022 (or at least Dec 2021).

Is there any procedure or action need to be taken, because I know it is such a big different. Or I can just open my PBIX with the Feb 2022 and save it to make my PBIX a new ?

Reason is I did that, now having trouble, after I upload it to PowerBI Service. It is the visual failed to display.

I'm not sure whether it is because an old version opened in new version or because other reason. But I did look into the Developer Tools browser, and found this ->

It looks more on CSS problem, which maybe because the format being different, like for example the Themes's contain is different  in the new version, that I need to something first.

Thanks.

[AllisonKennedy]

@admin_xlsior  Can you provide more info about what visual is failing to display? Are other visuals working fine?

In theory you should be able to update to new version and publish without issue.

[admin_xlsior]

@AllisonKennedy 

Currenty all visual except slicers. I actually already post this in another thread, in Power BI Service topic ->

Report error in Power BI Service - Microsoft Power BI Community

It's just I'm not sure whether the version is the problem, so I'm thinking beter try to separate the matter first which mean PBI Desktop versioning could be the issue, not PBI Service. As @amitchandak mentioned as well, it is a "Big jump". 

Thanks.

[AllisonKennedy]

@admin_xlsior  I don't think this has anything to do with the version of pbix you're using, but rather the DAX. I have encountered a similar error when I had a text column type that was mostly numeric. Power BI desktop handled it fine, but Power BI service decided it knew more than me and converted the data type to numeric, which then caused it to error when it got to the few text values. 

It could be something like that or different. If the problem persists, contact MS Support as they can provide more details in the back end of what the actual error messages are. That's how I figured out my issue was due to data type. 

[amitchandak]

@admin_xlsior , Big jump

This link has all power bi version - Third party link, use at your risk

https://zenatti.net/2017/12/28/power-bi-previous-versions-all-languages/

Migrate 3-6 months ahead version at a time. means first move Nov 2020, then march-2021 and so on

if need , use a in-between version