Tag: microsoft power bi
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Deployment Pipelines… What happened to my Dashboards???

Deployment pipeline is a great feature, but there is one option where you should be very careful.Deployment of dashboards! Why? Because if you have image tiles with links to reports, these links will BREAK.Let’s see it in action. When you create image tile on a dashboard, you define link to image which is shown on…
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Deployment Pipelines… When do i really need to refresh data after deployment???

When testing reports with different datasets, we need to do it using Power BI desktop application. Why? Because in Power BI desktop application we can change semantic model (dataset) for the report. Go to Home > Transform data > Data source settings > choose semantic model (dataset) On the other hand, if your report is…
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How to use Deployment Pipelines in Power BI Service? Initial deployment demo

Deployment pipeline is a perfect solution to make sure to publish final changes only after proper tests. How it works on Power BI Service?On the left sidebar you will see icon (or just click on 3 dots at the bottom) and you will see option “Deployment Pipelines”. To create new pipeline, just click on the…
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How to refresh semantic model every 10 minutes using Power Automate?

Power BI has a great feature – scheduled refresh of data.What does it mean? It means that we can specify how frequently we want to refresh data on Power BI Service.For example: we want to refresh data every day at 8 am.Or maybe, we want to refresh data every working day at 8 am, 9…
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How to replace semantic model without downloading reports?

When testing reports with different datasets, we need to do it using Power BI desktop application. Why? Because in Power BI desktop application we can change semantic model (dataset) for the report. Go to Home > Transform data > Data source settings > choose semantic model (dataset) On the other hand, if your report is…
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Unable to download reports created in Power BI Service? There is a solution!

Have you ever wanted to download a report from Power BI Service, only to find the option greyed out? We mostly face this issue when we get requests like this: User requests: User 1: I created a draft report in Power BI Service! Could you just copy/ paste a few pages from another Power BI…