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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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    Dan Thompson on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:39

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I would hope its possible to allow copy and paste, and to raise an error if the underlying data source is incompatible, and then allow the user to fix if there is an error?

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:12

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Please this is important. What is the status, very long time ago since admin comments?

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    Vaidøtas Ivøška on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:57

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    To the admin saying this is hard - skip the dependencies, we can add those ourselves. I just need the exact visual and fields.

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    David Cornwell on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:46

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Would really like this to have been done already....without it my task is going to take a lot longer now.

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    Karen Payne on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:32

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    This is being requested from our users too! Any update on if (or hopefully when!) this will be on a roadmap?

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    Oleg on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:06

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    My colleague and I made the dashboard and then we had to show it for our director. We tried to merge it but unsucessufully ( Could you add this oportunately to this soft?

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    lester on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:06

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    please add this soon.
    it was under review since jan17. should be operational by now right?

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:38

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Totally understand the 'underlying data dependencies' but a simple copy/paste and we'll take care of data dependencies... at least to not have to re-create all visuals from scratch. thanks !!

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    Stacy Targac on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:10

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I completely agree with this. It would save me a lot of time if I could simply copy and paste certain visual "styles" to a new .pbix and simply just change the data it is using in the new report.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:38

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Recreating a visual in a separate report can take tons of time just to get the visual details right (fonts, background, colors, etc). Most times I want to use the same visual backbone to plot different data.