I have a collection of .pbix models that follow a similar structure, ie, have the same tables and relationships.
It is too complex to combine them all into a single .pbix.
Is there a way to upload all these tables into a single repository, like PBI Service dataflows or a data warehouse, or something similar.
And then get the data back to PBI Desktop and perform DAX calculations, visualizations and report.
Any suggestions/ ideas?
Thank you so much for helping!
You can publish them to Power BI Service, and then create separate reports, but using these published datasets as a data source.
See Connect to datasets in the Power BI service from Power BI Desktop.
After publishing your "model" reports to Power BI Online, start making a new blank report, but instead of getting the data from files/databases/etc., choose Power BI service as a data source and select the previously published dataset. After that, you can publish your report the same way, but in this case you can share one dataset (your model) between multiple reports.
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I am rather new to Power BI, but I think I have a rather simple question.
Power BI is connected to Google BigQuery through import. Within PowerBI I make some transformations to create my visualisations. These visualisations create a report.
I publish the report and can then find it on https://app.powerbi.com/ in my Power BI environment.
The data in Google BigQuery is updated daily. Can I update the report online automatically without me having to press refresh in Power BI desktop? As the data gets updated automatically and I will not be changing the visualisations daily, I would think this is achievable.
If the answer is yes, how might I achieve this in the most simplest of terms?
Yes, you can. It is called scheduled refresh. After publishing your report to Power BI Service, go to Settings -> Datasets, select your dataset in the list, enter the credentials under Data source credentials section (if needed), and then configure the settings under Scheduled refresh section:
As far as I know, deploying a Power BI report from Power BI Desktop results in two items, the report itself and the dataset. When deploying a new report using the same dataset, will deploy the new report and a second copy of the same dataset in Power BI Service. That is not what I wanted. To not confuse end users and other, I want only an unique dataset deployed.
I want to make use of Azure Devops deploying to Power BI Service in a Dev, Test and Prod way. The dataset will be an azure analysis services data model, but the principle should be the same. I need to reduce the dataset to be exactly one and all reports must relate to that data model. I have heard of a Rest API or powershell scripting that can come to a rescue here.
So if any of you have done this or know of a good article that describes how to do this, I would be grateful.
Regards Geir
The best option is to separate the Power BI report in the frontend and the backend. You create a file purely for the dataset if you are importing, no reports created on it. You can then create the reports, using the service connection to the dataset, or with Power BI desktop, in the connection to Power BI Dataset option. Both will use 'Live Connection' mode, so you cannot add any other data sources to the model, for example bring in a CSV file or SQL database.
If you are connecting to an Azure Analysis Service data model, you can use this approach, however as it is only a connection only, not a full fat dataset, it should not be an issue to have copies of the dataset, as it is just the connection. Having copies of the dataset is only an issue if you are importing data, then it is best to move things to data flows, and use the same front/back end method, and the planning around the scheduling of the dataflows then datasets
You can use the REST API to move reports and the datasets that they connect to, and move items to new workspaces. If you have Power BI Premium that has a life cycle tool to move items between dev/test/live workspaces
If you create a report in desktop and choose 'Power BI Dataset' as live connection to work over it - when you upload the report to the same workspace, it will only upload the report and connect to the same dataset
https://radacad.com/power-bi-shared-datasets-what-is-it-how-does-it-work-and-why-should-you-care#:~:text=A%20shared%20dataset%20is%20a%20dataset%20that%20shared%20between%20multiple,tenant%20in%20Power%20BI%20environment.
I am new to Power BI and trying to build a report for one of our business requirements. I have access to a Power BI dataset which I imported in the Power BI desktop version. I also need to import an excel file placed in SharePoint/OneDrive and merge the data in these two sources. When I am trying to do this, I am getting the below error.
Is this feature not available in Power BI?
If not, is there a way to achieve this objective?
You are connected to a Tabular SSAS cube or Power BI Service dataset, you can't add other data sources.
You can only mix data source types in the modes direct query and import. See the limitations section of the MS docs
One option would be to recreate the Tabular data model in Power BI, over the base table/views it is based on in direct query mode, then add the SharePoint list, or add it as a table in the Tabular/Power BI Service Dataset
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Is it possible to use different warehouse in snowflake for data refresh in Power BI than warehouse used for dashboard development?
I'd like to have separate warehouse for data refresh in order to be able to track snowflake expenses.
Let's say I'm using SF_TUTS_WH as a warehouse for development, but I'd like to use PBI_WH as warehouse for data refresh in PowerBI. Is it possible to achieve this or do I have to change snowflake warehouse in PowerBI file before I'll load it to PBI online?
FYI: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/using-sso-between-power-bi-and-snowflake/
One option which will work for you is to have the ware house name paramterized for the reports. The value of the parameter can be updated from the service based on the requirements.Please check out the below video link to see how the parameters can be updated in the power bi service.
https://youtu.be/MJVSu47iMmo
Hope this helps
Thanks ,
Prasanth
I'm using Power bi service along with power bi desktop version.
What I'd like is to spend less time on setting up UI for my charts.
Let's say I have multiple accounts with power bi datasets in them (hybrid dataset to be able to display data in real-time).
Currently I have to create report on each of them, set up charts etc. I expected to create pbix file once and then just publish it to different accounts. But when it comes to reports bound with power bi datasets, it is no longer possible. Even if account already has exactly the same hybrid dataset.
Any ideas on how to implement portable reports?
If I got your point correctly, you have multiple accounts and in each of them you have the same dataset. You want to create open report, which you will publish to all of these accounts. I do not understand why do you need to create a new report for each of your accounts. Why not just change the data source of your report prior publishing it to each of these accounts?
Also it is not clear, how these datasets are created. I think there are two possible options here - these datasets are published with your report, or they are existing datasets not published with this report.
In the first case, just design your report, getting data from your database, and publish the report in each of your accounts. You could change the data source prior every publishing, if your different accounts/datasets should get data from different databases.
In the second case, when you design your report, do not get data from the database, but connect the report to the Power BI Service itself:
and pick the existing dataset:
Before each publish change the account you are logged in, change the data source of the report and select the dataset from the corresponding account. This way when publishing the report, the dataset will not be overwritten, but will be shared between this report and any other report who uses it.
To change the data source of your report, in the drop down of "Edit Queries" button, select "Data source settings" and then click "Change Source..." button.
In both ways you will design your report only once, but it will be published in different accounts using different data.
Are all of your users in the same tennant/company?
If so, create a workspace. Create your report which uses another power BI dataset as its source. Turn on row level permissions. Share the new report to all people. They will only see the data relevant to them and you will only need to maintain one report.
Row level security in power bi
I have used Power BI Service with Multiple Reports/Users in Same Organization with Shared Data Sources using different Reports for each user using the same Datasets.
From your Admin Account (eg. it#contoso.org) Publish all the Reports and once its working from Online (after configuring Gateway and DataSources). Download the PBIX Report File from Power BI Online.
Using Admin Account go to Dataset Settings and Allow the users who will use reports using this datasets to Publish Reports using this Dataset (further security to use dataset i.e. Even if they get the source PBIX File and upload it they wont get access to the data).
Login using the Users Power BI Account (must be within Same Organization, eg. contoso.org) then upload the Same PBIX Report File which was downloaded Earlier from Power BI Web Portal (do not publish via the Desktop App), its more efficient and cleaner on Accessing the Data through Web/Devices.
Now the reports as already they are using the same shared Datasets, the reports will be running fine and the data source settings only have to be done once from Admin User.
And for any further databases Administration only One Admin Account need to be used to access and modify the Data Source Settings.