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Unlike other Office 365 apps, PowerBi does not integrate very well with SharePoint.
There is no "checkin/out" control wihin PowerBI.
Power BI is a read-only connection. Checking In or Out is part of the publishing framework and is only concerned with connections that have Edit rights.
I think we're talking about different things.
The PBIX file I have represents (to me), the model and the data connections etc. When I have to alter the model, I pick up the PBIX file and edit it. Then I publish again to the PowerBI cloud.
So where do I keep the PBIX model? Well, like all good Microsoft clients, in SharePoint. Except that SharePoint and PowerBI don't interact very well.
If I open an excel object from SharePoint, I can check out and check in from Excel
If I open a PowerBI object (i.e. PBIX)from SharePoint, I have to manually check it out, and remember to check it in otherwise I just lose updates and versions etc.
It just another Microsoft Desktop app. Beats me why it doesn;t have the same SharePoint integration.
Yeah I can't help you with that one. I'm unsure what technology Microsoft uses to facilite the direct check in and out with their
It's not SharePoint that's the problem - the library is configured for version control and that works just fine .... if it's anything other than a PBIX file.
My point is that the PowerBI Desktop product is lacking in this area.
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