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Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

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Brett Gerhardi on 24 May 2016 16:44:02

Often we need to expand on an idea from one report further and copy and paste visuals/pages from one PBIX to another. This would be a huge productivity and quality benefit.

Administrator on 17 Nov 2018 01:54:09

We are excited to announce that this shipped in our November update of PBI Desktop: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/#copyPaste For those asking, it will be included in the next version of Power BI Desktop for Report Server as well.

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f654e47d 3a0e-4c1d-bee9-dd8a04971db7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:05

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

I thought maybe that was what Export to / Import from a Power BI Template would do. But, to my disappointment, when I opened my "target" PBIX and tried to import my template, a 2nd instance of Power BI Desktop opened with just my template in it. What good is that?

This should absolutely be your highest priority as it is costing too much time to manually re-construct visuals and/or pages.

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21387a57 79bf-47fa-8f60-fcabee8779d3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:12

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Because of this I cant divide the task in my team and finally merge all the tasks. It requires extra effort to merge changes by doing from scratch.

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7b7e9d67 9879-4aad-853a-c1243980df17 on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:36

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

This is definitely needed to reuse of visuals across multiple PBIXs

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ad24067f 3e79-4377-a151-285c6bf5697b on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:36

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Good idea!

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55e90c01 fb03-45e7-a78a-5df3a9bf4fae on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:22

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Yes, vero important!

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4bc3b9dd 97fa-4313-ba0b-b9632c9792e2 on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:25

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

How many votes does something have to get in order for it to be added to your list of future enhancements? This is such an instinctive feature, it's hard to believe you can't do this now. The way I handle it is to save my PBIX as a new name and re-use the pages or visuals I need. But really! No copy/paste????

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dfe8becb 8911-4b1e-a71c-ebc362ccd3df on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:18

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

very very very very useful. Especially when the model is the same for different pbix. or when you start doing something in one pbix and think that it would be better in another on . Its stupid to do it again from scratch.

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015532db 2f02-4315-8e88-700f7b396457 on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:25

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

In addition to Copy/Paste of visuals & pages....it would be very useful to copy & paste tables between PBIX's especially when tables are created within Power BI (at the data view level), rather than externally via excel for example.

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3bbcd2cd 56d0-4926-9194-185eae8502b8 on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:00

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Even if the feature just copied over the chart parameters to the new .pbix file this would be a great feature. In this way, if the table that the chart depends on were missing you would get a error in the data fields. That would be fine, you could just redirect manually. But if the same table exists in both .pbix files you should be able to copy the chart over.

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b7ad3915 e66d-4da2-b9ce-9f348e2e11d4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:42

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

It would be really helpful and will save a lot of time. Please provide this functionality as soon as possible.