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Data Source changes when report is downloaded

Submitted by Anonymous on ‎02-15-2019 02:47 AM

When a user downloads a report that uses a Power BI Dataset source, I'm finding that if they make changes to the report and re-publish it, then rather than being associated to the original dataset, it's creating a new dataset.

 

Checking this, I'm finding that my donwloaded report doesn't seem to reference my PowerBI dataset as the data source, but rather looks directly at the dataset's source.

 

Is this the intended behaviour? It's causing havoc as a user has downloaded a report, but when uplaoding it with changes, it's spawning new datasets 

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v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee
‎02-17-2019 07:30 PM

@Anonymous ,

I am unable to reproduce this issue on my side. Does the user publish the report to same workspace as yours? Does the user change the PBIX file name?

Regards,
Lydia

v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee
‎02-17-2019 09:36 PM
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Anonymous
Not applicable
‎02-25-2019 01:45 AM

Hi - yes they're publishing to the same workspace, no they're not renaming the file

v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee
‎02-27-2019 11:09 PM

@Anonymous ,

I am unable to reproduce this issue on my side. Do the users download PBIX file from Power BI Service and directly change report in the downloaded PBIX file? Could you please describe more details about "downloads a report that uses a Power BI Dataset source"?

Regards,
Lydia

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎02-28-2019 12:28 AM

Hey Lydia,

 

Yes, exactly that. File is downloaded from PBI Service, changed locally and then republished. When it's republished, it creates a new dataset instead of pointing at the existing dataset. The changes being made are purely cosmetic (they're applying a theme to the report)

v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee
‎03-06-2019 12:26 AM

@Anonymous ,

I am unable to reproduce this issue on my side, do you get this issue for all Power BI report?

Regards,
Lydia

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎03-06-2019 12:51 AM

Hey Lydia,

 

I've done some further testing.

 

If a user creates a report using PBI desktop, and publishes to web, then it's all fine and downloading and republishing the report works as expected.

 

However, if the report gets created in the PBI service, then when it's downloaded and republished, it seems to be this use case that creates a new dataset (and in fact a new version of the report too)

 

 

 

v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee
‎03-12-2019 12:50 AM

@Anonymous ,

@Anonymous wrote:

 

Checking this, I'm finding that my donwloaded report doesn't seem to reference my PowerBI dataset as the data source, but rather looks directly at the dataset's source.

 

 

Do you directly connect to the data source in Power BI Service and create report in Power  BI Service? If so, how do you download the PBIX file from this report?


Regards,
Lydia

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