Copy visual From One Template to Another in Power BI Online(Same Workspace)

[Mohanad-Mustafa]

Hello Team,

Are we able to copy one visual from one report template to another report template where both templates exist in the same workspace?

I am able to copy the visual within the same template but not outside the template I am ediiting. It seems that the clipboard doesn't even see the copy info as I am not able to paste in text file just as a test. 

I am aware of the option that provides save as a copy, but that option will not work for me as we have variety of report templates that are restricted by specific user access.

Any feedback is highly appreciated as it takes a lot of time to create the same visual for 100 of different report templates.

Thanks

[Mohanad-Mustafa · Accepted solution]

Guys I found the solution after ton of searching, we will have to be on the same page when we are trying to copy and paste a certain visual from one template to another in Power BI Online. Here is the link to the solution:-

https://powerbi.tips/2018/01/move-visuals-between-reports/

[collinq]

Hey @Mohanad-Mustafa ,

I understand that you are saying your are doing this online.  Have you tried to do it in desktop?  I would try that as a test - you might get  a better error message if it doesn't work in desktop.  If it does work in desktop then I would try doing it in a two separate instances of the same browser - two tabs of Edge for example where you copy from one to the other.  

And. if it is truly marked as a "template" do you have rights to modify the template that you are copying to?  Are you an owner/admin in the workspace and on each template?

[Mohanad-Mustafa]

Thanks for your reply @collinq , also in the desktop app, you can't copy one visual from one report to another, I have tried opening new tabs, new browser page and even different browsers like Safari,Edge or Chrome, no luck, it seems that you can only copy a visual within the same report template. Were you able to do this? Yes I am the workspace owner/admin and Iwas the one that created the report templates and I was the one who uploaded the datasets to begin with 

[collinq]

Hey @Mohanad-Mustafa ,

So, I guess what I was doing in Desktop was opening two templates and then I was copying from template to template and then doing a "save as" and overwriting the template name with itself.

[Mohanad-Mustafa]

You are acutally right, it does work in Power BI desktop but it doesn't work in the online platofrm unfortunately, perhaps its a browser limitation, any other suggestion please? Thanks