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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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    Murray Foxcroft on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:11

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Just used it 5 minutes ago, absolutely amazing, a fantastic time save.

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    Michael Foss on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:04

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    There are multiple versions of Power BI Desktop I want to know if this will be included in the report server version Power BI on its next release. Because the report server version is missing all kinds of newly added features.

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    Michael Foss on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:02

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    But will it be in the Next RS Version?????

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    Davinder on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:58

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Thanks Amanda, we are eagerly waiting for this feature.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:26

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Me want

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    Matthias Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:03

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Great that this is started ... Thanks a lot. As we just started a bigger project for one of our clients: Any chance that this new feature will be published within 2018?

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    Michael Foss on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:37

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Work around- Create a PBIX with all the standard items you want on it. This is what I am doing in the meantime, there's many ways around not being able to copy and paste from one report to the other. Although I agree this would be an appreciated update especially on the PBIX RS version not just the PR version.

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    Shane on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:36

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    My team is struggling with this issue - as we have numerous text boxes and other non-data related items in our reports (lines, boxes etc) that we want to use as a standard across all reports. Without being able to copy and paste this is taking us hours so we look forward to this new capability!!

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    CH Tsai on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:04

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    i have multiple instances of pbix (different version of data with same structure) and really would like to be able to copy/past/switch data source on the fly, that will be such a good news that they have someone working on it!

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    Mike Carlo on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:46

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Will this include both visuals, and entire Pages? I would really love the ability to copy an entire report page as well.