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Multiple reports in same designer file

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Rebecca on 17 Sep 2015 06:32:04

It would be good to be able to create multiple / separate reports in the same designer file, utilsing the same data. Currently they publish as one file, meaning that to have any as a separate report, you need to duplicate your designer file, creating double the work when having to add new datasets/make adjustments etc.

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Paul David Munoz on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:45

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

hope they put this on the top of their list!

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Mathew Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:26

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

agreed this is a must

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brendan walsh on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:05

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

Multiple different departments using the same dataset and each department has it's own report. Every time there's a change in the database, I have to update each report on an individual basis. This is very cumbersome and error prone exercise which leads to inconsistencies in reporting.

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Rory Neary on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:07

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

I would suggest that they offer functionality to build reports from the dataset once it's been housed on power bi. Currently it would appear that even when using content packs you effectively have to house your own 'copy' of the dataset. The idea that you have multiple versions of the same dataset does seem out of kilter with ideas around 'one version of the truth' and anything that can take this back to a single one would be helpful.

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Tas Ranson on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:40

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

This is a must to support managed development of various reports in an Enterprise level Power BI configuration.

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Frederic-Leif Meier on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:18

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

I hope this will come very soon as in the Web Version it's already there. Unfortunately in the Web Interface a lot of functionality is missing, so I need to work with Power BI Destop

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Tim on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:33

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

I would like also like multiple reports in a designer file as I have 25 facilities and growing to maintain.

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Joaquin on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:23

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

This would make my life much more easier. I have lot of query work to get my Dataset. That would be very useful to create different reports from same queries and not a single enormous one

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Salvolin on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:01

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

I miss this feature too

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ryan on 05 Jul 2020 22:16:55

RE: Multiple reports in same designer file

yea its making me think what is the point of desktop