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    Be able to publish Power BI Desktop Template to the Cloud without Data

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    Fahd EL YOUBI on 03 Jun 2016 20:37:20

    As a Power BI user,
    I want the ability to publish templates only to the cloud and have the auto refresh take care of filling in the data
    so that I don't have to wait hours every time I publish my yuge datasets

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    Fernando Hidalgo on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:39

    RE: Be able to publish Power BI Desktop Template to the Cloud without Data

    I would like to be able to do this to be share report templates with clients. It will look better than sharing this by email / web download.

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    Augusto Chaves on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:59

    RE: Be able to publish Power BI Desktop Template to the Cloud without Data

    Excellent idea.

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    Fahd EL YOUBI on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:47

    RE: Be able to publish Power BI Desktop Template to the Cloud without Data

    I have several tables with millions of records, publishing updates or something new from my Power BI Desktop takes forever. Why not have the option to publish the template (Metadata/Schema/Relationship) to the cloud and set the auto refresh to upload the data for me while I am away?