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Sharepoint file handling .pbix

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Louie on 14 Apr 2016 22:39:29

Sharepoint does not know how to handle .pbix files. Should be able to check out / open.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:55:08

RE: Sharepoint file handling .pbix

MS Team please make it possible to open pibx files from the desktop app directly in the sharepoint folder.

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Martial Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:05

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MS promote team use for collaboration but we cannot open a .pibx file store in it

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:45

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Company moving to sharepoint as common file sharing medium. Not being able to share pbix via sharepoint is a real pain.

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Andreas S. on 05 Jul 2020 23:44:24

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Would be very helpful as we use SharePoint for central data storage of all our pbix files accessiable to our report architects (who collaborative work on same Reports using checkIn / checkout). P.S.: Users accesing only via PBI Service / Premium.

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Stephen Wright on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:28

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It's more that Power BI doesn't allow me to open a pbix file stored in or save a file to SharePoint. I have to work with local copies which I try to avoid.

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Vinney K on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:53

RE: Sharepoint file handling .pbix

We would like to take advantage of the approval feature of SharePoint document libraries. We are using check in/out and versioning without issue. We also use OneDrive sync to keep the SharePoint library sync'd locally on our dev machines. When we tried to turn on the approval function, it put our sync'd files in read-only mode. This all but makes the approval feature obsolete since it would drive development down to local files. Fixing this would be a great improvement!

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WillyV@DXC on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:38

RE: Sharepoint file handling .pbix

Even with right click you cannot choose to open in PowerBI desktop.
Excel binary files are opende direct in excel from the desktop.
What is the difference ?

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Ketil on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:00

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We are going to do Versioning of PBIX-files in Teams, under files. We need this.

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Brandon Little on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:51

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This is something we'd love to have. Currently we have no central method in SharePoint Online for storing and sharing our PBIX files. Instead we have either keep them on our desktop, risky, or OneDrive, which we don't like. I'm sure there are other methods but we are pushing our users to SPO for collaboration, as much as possible and we have a large PowerBI user base.

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Mark Hansen on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:51

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In what version of SharePoint is this webpart available?