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Download report template (.pbit) from Power BI Service

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on 01 May 2018 15:21:17

It takes a lot of time to download report with large dataset. For ex. 750MB of data can take 5 more hours to be downloaded, or if it is distributed team then some members are not able to download report at all to modify. In case if you don't have empty (.pbix) file or template (.pbit) it's a trouble ... is it possible to add download template feature from the Power BI Report online?

Administrator on 11 Apr 2023 17:23:44

We are currently looking at adding capabilities like these, stay tuned!

Update 4/11/2023: moving this back to under review as it was removed from our plans.

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Chris Olivier on 31 May 2023 08:13:20

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Please reprioritize this!It will make managing large PBI estates a lot simpler and more efficient.

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F S on 06 Oct 2022 11:46:15

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We run a script-based version management of our server-based PowerBI reports..Currently, we rely on downloading and holding the full PBIX files (i.e. with all data).This takes up an unnecessary amount of disk space with more than 160 reports.Version management only requires the data model, not the actual data.Therefore, a download option for PBIT files from the server would be very useful here!

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on 22 Feb 2022 23:28:43

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PBIT files cannot be downloaded from the power bi service and we do not have alternate solution for this now.
It would be better if users can able to download PBIT files from Power Bi service.

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Josh Judy on 26 Oct 2021 13:53:11

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Especially for the large format datasets that you can't currently download

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Alex Whittles on 17 Aug 2020 19:20:53

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Oh, and also accessible from the API! Thanks :)

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Alex Whittles on 17 Aug 2020 19:20:17

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Would be a great feature, please add this!

This should also include the ability to download large datasets, incremental datasets, and those using shared datasets which at the moment cannot be downloaded.

Please! Thanks :)

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Angel on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:16

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Absolutely agree. It seems like simple feature and it's a very good step ahead.

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IT Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:19

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Please make this happen. This is a very important feature for us and the competitors like tableau already do this

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Paul on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:31

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Why is this not a feature yet? Seems quite simple and would be very helpful

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Fernando Hidalgo on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:39

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This would also be useful for users who do not have "Edit" permission. An option to download the PBIT for users with only read access would be great, so they can download the template and create their own version of the report. Maybe a new permission to do this?

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