Michael Steineke on 09 Sep 2015 03:46:32
PowerBI.com should have some type of Source Code control integration for change control
- Comments (66)
RE: source control
We currently use QlikView as our BI platform, which integrates (indirectly through SVN) with GitHub. QlikView reports (QVW's) are broken down into a series of XML and text files, and a single binary file. It would be nice to have a solution like this for easy integration with any source control system.
RE: source control
'Here's my dream workflow:
1. My developer creates (on their own computer) a new BI chart that displays my data just the way I want it
2. They "publish" to the web and the source code goes with it
3. Enjoy the awesomeness of PowerBI on the web!
-------- time passes
4. I tell a different developer to update the chart
5. They download the source code from the web, right where it was published!
6. They update chart and when they publish, the new code is saved to the web!
Right now my team has actually lost source code to a chart, requiring us to recreate the chart from memory. This was because we didn't even think that the source code wouldn't be saved
RE: source control
I just use Git. It's binary files so it's not great for mergs / changes, but checking out previous commits has worked for going back and keeping a historical record of data.
RE: source control
Yeah, I was able to use tfs in visual studio to accomplish this. I created a new sql server project under my main ssas solution and am able to add powerbi files to a new tree folder structure.
RE: source control
This is a must in Enteprise grade solutions!
RE: source control
there are many separate requests for some sort of source control / change control of report development. thats hiding the number of votes for it.
Suggest something like SSRS report development a visual studio project that could be optional and connected to a source control provider.
RE: source control
Please add support/integration with Visual Studio Team Services / TFS ASAP so that we can convince Corporate IT to let us use PowerBI for production deployments.
RE: source control
Would like to see the pbix file as XML or similar.
RE: source control
Alternatively, even make pbix something that is text base and let us push it into GIT
RE: source control
Yes please! This would make PowerBI far more usable in a team environment.