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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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    Sylvia Vargas (SHE, HER) on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:07

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    This a basic feature for Qlik View/Qlik Sense and Tableau for years (at least 4 in my experience).

    Having this feature will drive your product adoption faster since everyone loves to cut and paste in addition to be a BIG productivity booster!

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    Dominick Cutaia on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:57

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    If this feature were available today, it would save me about an hours worth of work. I have the same data sources within both dashboards, if I could just copy and paste the graphs over, it would be a God send. Please consider bumping this up on the priority list.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:54

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Please do it on priority basis. We are re-working on many objects due to not availability of this feature .

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:47

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I'm begging....please hurry?!

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    Kiran Bachu on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:46

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    It has been almost 18 months in "under review" and we need this feature very much to improve the productivity.
    It can be released in phases/versions - first, allowing copy paste between PBIX files of same data source/data set and then in second phase, allowing copy paste from two different sources.

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    jayavardhan on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:46

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Yes please add this feature.

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    Casey on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:41

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    If nothing else, please let us edit the layout file in the unzipped PBIX file. Whatever restriction is on that file that prevents basic updates needs to be removed.

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    Sean McLarty on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:35

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    '@Betsy Hofflin I have just switched a report from an ODBC connection to a SSAS 2016 tabular data model. I had to delete every table from the report before it allowed me to connect to the tabular model in live query mode. When I deployed the report it produced an error which I fixed by opening the file with 7zip and deleted the Data Model file.

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    Betsy Hofflin on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:31

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I'm converting a report from SQL query source to SSAS tabular source and am having to recreate everything. Please add this!

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:14

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Yes, please add this one!