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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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c1e8d6d0 7982-4184-a40f-c826c3dc57bf on 05 Jul 2020 22:27:04

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

I really need this one..

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c9205c01 00e0-4cdd-a91f-b6308cb43705 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:20

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Really frustrating not to be able to do this - especially when two different files are using the same data source. To get the same or similar view into a different PBIX file, you have to recreate the entire thing from scratch.

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2bdbbd94 4949-4947-bf54-f8ef350d7e8a on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:51

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

It's impossible to merge to pbix... not even copy paste. So yeah, it would be usefule, a lot.

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177bbe1e e5b3-43ec-bc69-24f6db121c99 on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:58

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

I just encountered this issue trying to copy and image visual and a text box visual from one pbix file to another. I understand that it's more difficult to implement copy/paste for visuals that are tied to data sources and other levels of config, but hopefully it would be easier to add copy/paste for static things like images and text boxes.

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097276db bf58-43a5-a6a8-3acbc0fd8377 on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:37

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

This would be especially useful when you have a standard format as a template (e.g. showing data for section) to apply this to existing PBIX's with a lot of work already done.

Right now you have to manually craft it from scratch again :(

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7c886a29 b67c-4501-8099-7956f4ffa1b6 on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:13

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

Also, to be able to copy pages between pbix files (of course when is the same data source), like in excel

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00d21ff8 897f-4064-8674-12a0facb004a on 05 Jul 2020 22:16:58

RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

I and my teammates are trying to make dashboard for our clients. We are using the same dataset. However we found that it is impossible in Power BI Desktop that each person create pages separately and combine everything together. I think if we can work in parallel and consolidate at the final stage, it would be more efficient. it seems that SSRS provides this feature.