Matt Smith on 2019-02-28 17:19:38
When you create a PowerBI report in Power BI Desktop it transparently create \ use a git repository. So you just worked normally, then when you hit publish, it actually push to remote.
Gitignore could be used to exclude data from being published to the repository. PowerBI would have version control which is desperately needed.
This would work well with the whole Microsoft buying Github \ Azure DevOps, both from the perspective of promoting good practices such as code version control and CI\CD - process of developing in development and promoting to UAT\production
It would also allow IT to get visibility of code, allow tests to be run - such as moving DAX calculated columns with M
This would also solve the other ideas:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17523715-report-version-control
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7861287-dataset-report-version-control
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34315045-seamless-version-control-of-queries-data-model-st
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/9677517-source-control
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/9080776-using-git-or-some-other-sccs-to-store-m-queries-n
Administrator on 12/6/2023 4:56:47 PM
Released for public preview in June 2023: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-power-bi-desktop-developer-mode-preview/
Update 10/17: This is now in our upcoming roadmap and we will share more details in the coming months. Mo
March 2022 update: We are working on this item but no timeline can be shared yet. We appreciate your patience
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Santosh Vappangi Kumar on 2021-05-03 17:07:40
Check-in, Check-out feature
Hi Team, We want some help in figuring out how to co-author power BI dashboards that will allow us to check in, check out the pbix file when we make edits/updates to the file. 1) I want to author i.e., make the edits using the Power BI desk top tool (2) Not have to download and upload the fi...
Raj Rao on 2021-05-20 20:11:51
Allow PowerBi Desktop to save a BiM file automatically
When one saves a PBIX file in PowerBi, it would be awesome if it could automatically save a BiM file with the same name as PBIX file. Ideally, this should be an option that only those that want to turn it on, could turn it on. This would benefit developers who use source control (like GIT), as ...
Greg Nash on 2019-11-29 11:27:53
Branch and Merge model changes to a PBIX file or Dataset in the service
It would be very useful for enterprise development teams to be able to branch a data model from an existing pbix file (or the service) and then make changes such as relationship definition, measures etc and merge them back into the file. It would allow multiple developers to work on a single mode...
Philipp on 2019-07-18 12:33:01
Include power query script from URI like git repository
Hi Team, in my former BI Tool, i had the possibility to embed/include external text files - for Power BI Dataflows this would be POWER QUERY Scripts - from sources like github, gitlab or azure dev ops git repositories. I would love to see this feature in dataflows as this would make a hugh st...
Aaron C on 2019-07-04 04:05:21
A "Team explorer" version control window in PowerBI
This would require the ability to export the report (no data, no Power Query*) from the Power BI file as it's own git friendly file type. This would then allow full version control. It may also require a "dataset" included template. Which would be a everything in the current template method, but...
Power BI User on 2020-05-29 16:31:14