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Craig Pilley on 09 Aug 2016 01:43:55

When publishing from Power BI Desktop, the pop-up shows a simple list of available workspaces (choose one). The publisher cannot determine which workspaces were published to last, potentially leading to out of date and orphaned dashboards on powerbi.com. Add a few features:
1) Check box beside each workspace (checked means published)
2) Republish the update to multiple workspaces based on checks by cycling through each
...this should be viable as PowerBI already has logic to call out when it's overwriting an existing data set.

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54cf4b43 9a28-4213-88dd-b0a4771ab325 on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:17

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

Yes - we need this yesterday!

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5959e2f9 e5c2-ea11-a812-000d3a563be2 on 16 Aug 2020 04:12:12

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

This needs to happen. The app architecture is great but it can be tedious to maintain when you have reports that must be maintained in multiple apps.

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103257cd 90d4-e911-a96f-000d3a4f33c1 on 16 Aug 2020 04:10:00

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

can the result window that appears following the refresh also indicate to which workspace the refresh was carried out?

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a540bf31 25d6-42d0-b31f-c7d6f49d1122 on 16 Aug 2020 04:04:53

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

Really needed, another way is to publish to a central store and then create a link in all the workspaces that should see the report.

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ad029e17 27bf-4edf-92a9-7df0c090ed04 on 16 Aug 2020 04:02:01

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

It would also be nice for the report to "save" the checks for the workspaces the report was last published to for faster publishing.

It would also be nice for the data refresh cycle to be consistent based on this, single report.

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5e849593 0c45-455e-96f6-febd308cb00b on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:46

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

We publish a number of dashboards each week and would like to be able to publish them to multiple workspaces simultaneously.

We've been experimenting with Microsoft Teams and I've found that even though we all have Pro licenses and dashboards from a private group have been individually shared with other users, then still cannot see those dashboards embedded on a Channel tab. My only guess is that this is because they are not members of the private group workspace we are publishing to. I could create another group and associated Team space, but then I'd have to publish all the dashboards twice and I'd like to avoid that if possible.

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dc32231d f03f-453a-9b33-23e96013ab31 on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:23

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

Important Requirement for integration and consistency

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ad029e17 27bf-4edf-92a9-7df0c090ed04 on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:23

RE: Publish to Multiple Workspaces

Also could be seen as publishing one report to multiple "Groups"...but thanks for posting this idea.