Publishing .PBIT file to Power BI Service

[Anonymous]

Hello, 

Is there a way wherein we can publish .PBIT file to Power BI Service? I was going through Miscosoft's blogs and one of the blog (Please refer the link below) says Miscorosft would be working on it, just wanted to check if there are any updates? 

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-query-parameters-and-power-bi-templates/

Thanks, 
Jash

[v-cherch-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

You can't publish a .pbit file. What you have published should be .pbix file. Once you open a .pbit file and retrieve the data properly, you must save it into .pbix to publish.For your requirement,you may vote this similar idea which has been submitted and add your comments there to improve Power BI and make this feature coming sooner.

Regards,

[v-cherch-msft]

Hi @Anonymous 

Could you tell me if your problem has been solved? If it is,kindly mark the helpful answer as a solution and welcome to share your own solution. More people will benefit from here.

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Hi @v-cherch-msft ,

Not being able to publish a PBIT file creates a raft of serious issues:

Here are some of the problems:

Problem 1 - Long waiting time

I have to manually open the PBIT -->refesh all data (15-20 minutes) --> publish online manually

Problem 2 -Impossible to have a CI/CD

I cannot implement  CI/CD solution. I have a PBIT file checked into GIT. I want my CI/CD (Azure Devops) to publish the PBIT to my DEV-Workspace and upon validation, I want my CI/CD to automatically publish to PROD-Workspace.

Problem 3- Solving CI/CD by checking in the PBIX into GIT

We could do convert the PBIT into PBIX (50 MB!) and then store this in GIT. But, this would mean storing customer sensitive data in GIT. We definitely do not want to do.