How to migrate to new workspace?

[lotus99]

I have a couple of dataflows designed with old workspace, now I'd like to create new dataflow linked to the existing ones as data source, therefore a new workspace is required. I'd like to know how to migrate our existing dataflows for the old workspace into the new one? so far I created a new workspace with the same name as the old one, I don't think it will work when I upgrade it to Primum workspace. in our organization we have to go through IT department to upgrade to Primum. 

Question:

1) how to migrate dataflows from old workspace to the new workspace?

2) can I keep the same name for the new workspace? since the workspace is the business unit name, given another name sounds strange.

thanks,

[v-xicai]

Hi @lotus99 ,

For your question1, Workspace upgrade feature has not released. You can check below link to know the plan of feature release: What’s new and planned for business intelligence#Power BI Service .

Feature	Release type	Date
Upgrade classic workspaces to the new workspace experience	Public Preview	Nov-19

And it is not supported to migrate dataflows from old workspace to the new workspace in Power BI currently.

For your question2, it is unavailable to keep the same name for two new workspace, while you can keep the same name for one classic workspace and one new workspace. To distinguish the workspace, you can also add suffix in the end of workspace name.

Best Regards,

Amy

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[lotus99]

Thanks Amy.

What is your advice for now: should I start re-creating dataflows from scratch  with the new workspace in order to get linked dataflow feature, or wait for the new release with eventually migration feature? We have quite Entities in dataflow in classic workspace now. 

by the way I have another question about dataflow, when will have the Power BI dataflow as data source in Excel Power Query? I have already voted for the new idea. 

thank you, regards,

[nickyvv · Accepted solution]

I'm also very much looking forward to the migration tool that is coming.

To add to that: You can actually export a dataflow like this:

And import it again in a new workspace by using Import Model:

[lotus99]

Hi nickyvv,

Thank you very much for the tip! I'll try it. 

Dataflow is very nice feature. I'm looking forward for the access from Excel Power Query!