Hi Christian,
We have been using a single-dataset-multiple-report architecture while using Sharepoint for version control. We noticed that ALM Toolkit modifies the PBI content when the target is in the PBI service. There's two community posts related to this:
I also see now that there's a big caution here when using XMLA write operations: "At this time, a write operation on a dataset authored in Power BI Desktop will prevent it from being downloaded back as a PBIX file. Be sure to retain your original PBIX file."
Is this anything that can be prevented by ALM Toolkit or is it something that needs to be managed by the XMLA endpoint write operation? Do you have any idea if this will change in the near future?
Some non-essential additional info:
- Our client no longer allows us to use the desktop versions of O365 apps and has also restricted us from downloading anything from the online O365 apps, which means we can no longer use OneDrive and Sharepoint for version control except if we take the content outside the organisation.
- This means we need the ability to download from the PBI service with the assumption that it always contains the latest version of PBI content.
- We're therefore considering using an Azure DevOps implementation for CI/CD and version control.
Lastly, thanks for this great tool called ALM Toolkit. It has improved our way of collaborating on datasets tremendously.
Hi Christian,
We have been using a single-dataset-multiple-report architecture while using Sharepoint for version control. We noticed that ALM Toolkit modifies the PBI content when the target is in the PBI service. There's two community posts related to this:
I also see now that there's a big caution here when using XMLA write operations: "At this time, a write operation on a dataset authored in Power BI Desktop will prevent it from being downloaded back as a PBIX file. Be sure to retain your original PBIX file."
Is this anything that can be prevented by ALM Toolkit or is it something that needs to be managed by the XMLA endpoint write operation? Do you have any idea if this will change in the near future?
Some non-essential additional info:
- Our client no longer allows us to use the desktop versions of O365 apps and has also restricted us from downloading anything from the online O365 apps, which means we can no longer use OneDrive and Sharepoint for version control except if we take the content outside the organisation.
- This means we need the ability to download from the PBI service with the assumption that it always contains the latest version of PBI content.
- We're therefore considering using an Azure DevOps implementation for CI/CD and version control.
Lastly, thanks for this great tool called ALM Toolkit. It has improved our way of collaborating on datasets tremendously.