Is there a difference between looking at the Power BI Desktop File (.PBIX extension) and looking at the report created when you go to Power BI Report Server and click on "Edit in Power BI Desktop"?
Will everything be exactly the same or would it be better to just look at the .PBIX file if I want to see exactly how the report was created?
I am unable to test this myself at this time.
When you open the file that has been uploaded in the Power BI (PBI) Service, you can be certain that this your live file that is currently being used in production.
When you open a .PBIX file on computer using the PBI Desktop, it might be the same file as the file downloaded from PBI Service, but there's no guarantee that no changes have been made to the file.
So if you want to know the current live file looks like, always download the .PBIX file from PBI Service.
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I'm new to power bi. I have developed a dashboard on power bi desktop. It reads some .csv files as data source. Now I need to move it to another machine, names of those csv files are the same, path is the only thing to be updated.
Is it possible to change the path only, instead of rebuilding this dashboard? Thanks.
In Power BI Desktop:
Go to File - Options - Data Source settings
Select your csv-file
Click the Change Source ... button and change the file path
I have created a ssrs report with parameters and published it in the server. I want the file to be downloaded without rendering the file. Does anyone know how to achieve to download the power bi report builder output file without rendering the file?
You can download the report definition file in Power BI Report Server/SSRS in two ways. In the service:
And on the SSRS/PBIRS, find the report and select the download option
These files are the report definition (RDL) files, not the rendered versions. You can then use these in Power BI Report Builder or SSDT to alter them.
I have a Power BI report that I've created in Power BI Desktop. I save the report to a .pbix file and upload the report to Power BI Service using the .bpix file stored in SharePoint/OneDrive.
If I make changes to the report visuals in Power BI Service, will those changes be overwritten by OneDrive refresh of the visuals?
No, once changes have been made to the report in the service, it will not write back to the OneDrive file. To get those changes, you have to export the PBI Report out of the service and resave it. If you reload the PBI report again before exporting your changes, it will overwrite anything that you have done in the service.
Is it possible to convert a .pbix file into a .bim file while preserving all the data connections and expressions / shared expressions?
I have a power bi file I’ve exported into a .pbit file then loaded into Tabular Editor and saved as a .bim file and then loading the .bim file into SSDT visual studio 2015. My compatibility level is 1400.
The problem is that when I am converting from .pbix into .pbit that I lose data connections and shared expressions. The data connections are saved as “mashup” connection strings inside the database which reference back to the instance of power bi desktop I had open
How can I have these data connections remain as Oracle or SQL server connections?
You can import a .pbix file into Azure Analysis Services. At that point, it becomes a regular Tabular model that you can download as an SSDT project (including the Model.bim file). However, you'll have to pay for the Azure Analysis Services instance during this operation.
Other than that, I guess you could ask the author of Tabular Editor to provide this functionality.
I was building a report in Power bi. I did not save the file yet, so by default it was named "Untitled".
Server shut down unexpectedly. After reboot I opened Power BI but. In "View recovered files" I am unable to find the one I was working on.
I'm trying to find the location where Power BI stores .ipbx files but cannot find it.
Does anybody knows is there a chance to recover my Untitled file?
Thanks
Power BI stores temporary saved versions of the PBIX reports you build in the folder:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves\
e.g.
C:\Users\augustoproiete\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\TempSaves\
You should find files that look like this:
~$Untitled (Recovered 06d01d5075934de452284d38bd96ddf6bad.pbix
It was hidden for me too. I did a search on my computer for all .pbix files and the search discovered it. I then opened file location and found it. But I could not navigate directly to the location of the backups using Windows 10.
C:\Users\<username>\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App\TempSaves
This is the location of the .pbix auto saved files.
C:\Users\<username>\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App\AutoRecovery
This is the location of any Auto Recovered .pbix files if Power Bi crashes.