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Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

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Suman Bhagavathula on 10 Jul 2015 05:12:20

I would like to have the ability to change the data source connection string from the PBI service. Let's say I am playing with a Dashboard and I only want to use my PPE datasource for the connection at this point. Once I am happy with the results and the look and feel, I would need to have the ability to flip the data source to Production before sharing the dashboard with larger audience

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5f243631 2ead-4957-b97f-4b7ebbda0da1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:05

RE: Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

One of the most important features for those who use PBI service without PBI desktop. Any idea if it's planned?

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cca93169 8130-4ecd-a293-c14242a9c315 on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:11

RE: Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

This would be helpful when we have to create report as a template and then share it with users. At the moment this is not possible.

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03521688 3a4a-e811-a974-000d3a1ab978 on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:20

RE: Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

Considering that you effectively broke everyone's CRM Online reports sourced via the Service when you upgraded tenants to CRM 2016 and thus changed the OData URL, this would be extremely helpful in not recreating all of the reports from scratch.

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85319eb5 8681-4cd9-81ff-875155fa7a1c on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:05

RE: Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

So many applications: If you are a consultant and have build models based on standard software databases, you can reuse them easily too.

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b2679a4b 7ed2-4226-90f0-5de99a9c7efc on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:16

RE: Ability to change the data source connection string from PBI service

This would be really helpful, especially now you've added sharepoint as a datasource we would like to change some of our datesource locations