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    Publish App via REST API

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    on 09 Aug 2017 16:39:56

    The REST API allows me to programmatically deploy a new set of reports to a Power BI App Workspace, but there is no way to then Publish this App to make it available to the users via the REST API. This is stopping me from creating a complete deployment system for Power BI reports for use in a Continuous Deployment process.

    Currently I have to manually navigate to the App workspace and press the 'Deploy App' button in my browser.

    https://app.powerbi.com/groups//publish-app

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    Darren Fishell on 01 Feb 2022 21:27:14

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Echoing sentiments below! This is a small addition that would make a big difference.

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    Rohan Shenoy on 07 Dec 2021 17:02:45

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Any update on this? Would be the final piece to close the CI/CD process loop. Thanks!

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    Paolo Ravina on 02 Dec 2021 20:18:30

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    This feature is critical for enterprise (non Premium) capacity customers to implement CI/CD pipelines. Its causing my team major headaches/impacting customer experience.

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    Mattias De Coninck on 26 Oct 2021 15:09:08

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    This should be added, functionality is already available as part of the deployment pipelines see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/pipelines/deploy-all#pipelineupdateappsettings

    But the deployment pipelines are just not enough for complex usecases.

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    Paul Rowland on 15 Sep 2021 16:09:54

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Agree with everyone else here. It's a real buzz-kill to have to actually open a browser, navigate to the workspace of the published report & hit update app. Should have the ability to perform API call and refresh in power shell / power automate. Make this happen Microsoft!

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    Charles Abetz on 13 Aug 2021 00:04:09

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Any update on this?

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    Jonathan Jedrczak on 24 Jun 2021 11:29:32

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Please implement this, it would be extremely useful

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    Matt Butler on 23 Jun 2021 18:46:52

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    This is badly needed for true CI/CD with Power BI.
    I can do everything else to deploy datasets and reports in through Azure DevOps PowerShell scripts, except this last step.

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    Michael Lee on 20 Apr 2021 20:57:00

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Exactly how many votes do we need to get this functionality implemented? The button is executing "something". Couldn't Powershell call the same?

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    Jing Xu on 12 Apr 2021 15:34:34

    RE: Publish App via REST API

    Please add this feature to the product roadmap as it is critical for setting up a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for Power BI dashboards.