I would like to track changes made in a PowerBI report, for example which visual is added, deleted or changed.
I can track the Dataset with ALM toolkit but it does not allow tracking of report. Is there any app for that?
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This is a n00b question. I need to make some changes to a report that has been published on the PowerBi Cloud. I need to make some changes to a visual. After making the changes, I publish the report. It ends up creating a new report in the workspace. Is there a way to update the report with the changes from PowerBi Desktop? Or do I need to remove the old one and create a new report? I could find any documentation on this.
As long as the report is the same name and it is being published to the same workspace it will overwrite. This maintains the report's GUID (internal identifier) which is also used in the hyperlink to the report, so is handy to keep constant.
You can test this by publishing a report and opening it once published. Check this link and the report content. Change the report and publish again - it will ask you to overwrite. Once re-published, you can refresh and see the report link stays constant but the report is updated.
My initial requirements was to create a PowerApp that's integrated with Power BI using one of the columns (say col1) from tables used in Power BI report. I implemented this and published the app.
Now, the requirements have changed and the request is for an additional column (say col2) in the same app. How can I add an additional new field that can somehow show under PowerBIIntegration.Data.col2?
I didn't find any documentation or reference for the same. In past, I have built PowerApps with multiple columns but not sure how to add new column to existing PowerApps when integrated with Power BI.
I had the same issue, what you need to do is edit the power app from the PowerBI file or published version too.
Steps:
Open the PowerBI file or the published file with clicking on edit
Select your existing PowerApp visual
Add the new columns by checking the new column check boxes per usual
Then hover over the PowerApp Visual and click on on the three dots that appear in the top right of the powerApp visual, and select Edit,
This will launch PowerApp studio page so you can edit the app
Using this method will also connect your app to the live data set from the PowerBIIntegration data set.
source text:
"If you change the data fields associated with the visual, you will need to edit the app from Power BI service to make sure that the changes are propagated to PowerApps. You will observe unexpected behavior if the app is not edited from Power BI service to make sure that the new fields from Power BI reflect in the app."
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/et-ee/blog/powerbi-powerapps-visual/
I am in the process of creating a dashboard in power BI with multiple people. Currently I have 4 entities in a Dataflow that move to a dataset which are then visualized in reports. I recently added a column to one of my entities that I would like to show up in a report that is already created. However, despite the column being added to the entity (it shows up when I try to create a new report), it isn't displayed in the older report. How can I get my new column to display in an already created report?
You need to get the old report, go to the Query Editor and refresh the preview for it to pick up the new column.
You may have to go through the steps to make sure it is not removed, by for example reducing the columns down via a selection. When you create a new report you can see the column as it is getting the dataflow table structure with out any history in the query. Note this is not just for Dataflows, but for most types of connection where the structure changes, for example CSV, Excel etc.
Check if the source data set is set to private by the person who published the report. Changing this might grant you access to the source dataset.
While trying to embed a single visual from an embedded Power BI report, the page filters applied to the report is also coming along the Visual and I am not able to remove it using removeFilter function mentioned in Power BI playground. I tried like :
Take the visual from report and tried removing filter to the single visual.
Remove the filter from report (successful) and get the Single Visual.
In both cases, Visuals are displayed with Filter.
Could anyone please help me out?
Dashboard are basically for presentation purpose. First you will generate your desired output for a visual in the report using - Slicing, Filtering and drilling down. Once your visual is showing your expected output, you can then PIN your visual to your target dashboard. Remember, once you pinned a visual to a dashboard, you can not change it any more in the dashboard. If you need changes, you need to perform in in the report and then again pin your final output to the dashboard.
Lets go through some comment/explanation from different blogs and tutorials-
Tiles/visuals pinned to a dashboard are displayed based on the filters applied
to them via the filter pane OR via slicers OR via cross filtering at
the time of pinning in report.
Dashboards do not currently have filters that will allow filtering
across tiles/visuals.
A dashboard can contain charts from multiple reports. That’s why a
sliver doesn't make sense on a dashboard, because the slicer can't
filter all charts/datasets.
Whatever, I also found some comments as below, but I have not enough knowledge about the approach mentioned.
If you would like the ability to filter specific tiles on a dashboard,
pin live report pages
You can pin a whole report page as a live page, so that any changes
you make in that report page will be reflected in the live page you
pinned to your dashboard.
You can do some google about what is power bi Live Report is
If I update the modelling in Power BI Desktop and then publish, I get the following message:
"You already have a dataset named 'xxxxx' in Power BI. Do you want to replace the existing dataset with this one?"
How do I get it to update rather than replace the dataset?
There is no update option. You can only replace, or, if you want to keep the existing dataset, rename the one you are trying to publish so it is unique in the workspace you are publishing to.
A dataset is a query against a source system and, if you are not in direct/live query mode, the associated data. The report you are publishing requires the dataset it is sourced from. The dataset is not separable from the report.
Even if there were no changes between the old dataset and the new dataset (i.e. you just made a cosmetic change to the report), PowerBI.com would have no way of knowing that unless it uploaded the new dataset and compared it to the old dataset. That would take so much longer than a replacement that I'm not sure what the value would be.
Sidenote: if you're looking to do an incremental update (e.g. only load new rows, and not re-upload existing rows), Power BI doesn't support this yet, but there is an idea you can vote on to get this feature added: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7288623-incremental-data-loads. However, you specifically asked about publishing the report, so I doubt this is what you are looking for.