I've been running into a few issues when updating existing reports to the Service:
- Instead of the existing report on the service being updated, a new report is added. I maintain different file names between the desktop file vs the report on the server.
- Reports or dashboards that people once marked as favorites are no longer registered. I assume this is because we deleted the "old report" once we published a new updated version.
- Tiles on dashboards get an error stating the report no longer exists. The dataset is still there so they update with new information each day, but clicking on the tile no longer takes you to a report. I assume this is becasue the "old report" was deleted and we re-published the updated report.
I'm almost certain all of the above is due to my team taking the orignal desktop file, making a copy of it (as to preserve the original), making updates to the copied version, then publishing the copied version. The copied version gets a slightly different file name such as Test Report 1.2. (1.2 just stands for report id 1, version 2).
Power Bi the Service treats the copied version as an entirely new report. That makes sense to me.
My question is how do you guys do version control and maintain your reports so that the original properly gets updated on the service without having a new report added and having to delete the outdated one?
Of the top of my head, the fix is to always make updates to the orgianl file. But what if you make some changes that are not what you intended and save over the orginal. How would you go back to that prior state?
Please let me know how the rest of you are doing it!!
