Power BI Embed Save report with version control instead of overwriting

[Anonymous]

When I click Save report it overwrites the exisitng report, can i get pervious version and new version from the meta data of Power bI? What if user wrongly update the report and save it and i want to get the old report back? 

[Dan2 · Accepted solution]

DNaveens - good question. I wish there was a way to do this. So far the best I have come up with is the initial time a user wants to edit a report in embedded view we ONLY allow the user to do a "Save as" which essentially creates a copy. Then we can allow the user to do a save on the copied report. This is a work-around, as we can only get back to the base version if needed and not each individual save.

[Jayendran]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Version control itself is not available in PowerBI as of now. You have to do that seperately .

I've written an article which might useful for you, I used Azure DevOps (git) as the source control in my artcile

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/53172.azuredevops-cicd-for-powerbi-reports.aspx#PowerBI_Reports_in_Azure_Repo

For more references: (Thanks to @GilbertQ )

https://www.fourmoo.com/2019/07/23/setting-up-version-control-for-my-power-bi-desktop-files-pbix-with-no-additional-cost-part-1/

https://www.fourmoo.com/2019/08/06/using-version-control-with-power-bi-desktop-files-check-in-check-out-view-or-revert-to-previous-versions-part-2/

[GilbertQ]

Happy to help where I can!