Version control for Power BI files

In this video I am going to show you how to do version control with Power BI files, or at least, one way to do it.

How do you do it? Let me know in the comments box.

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[EllovdGriek]

Hello Ruth, please note that if you are using Import you also load all the data (for each different version) to OneDrive. So be careful irt access rights and size.

[akhilannan]

One advantage of using SharePoint for storing PowerBI files is that, you can directly add this report from SharePoint to PowerBI Service, and any future changes to PowerBI file in SharePoint will be automatically captured by Service without the need to publish the report to service.

[MaxiParedes]

The video title should begin with "satisfying" as the others videos that appear in youtube" (LOL), the content is just, and your explainings are easy to understand that and with your quiet voice, it really satisfying to learn in this way. I'll try to control my files in this way, thanks for your help!

[joseagundis]

Ruth, creo que es una buena practica agregar comentarios a las versiones que vamos guardando, después no recordamos que cambios hicimos entre versiones.

[hdgdhdhdh]

Hi Ruth, Is this feature of PBI only for pro licences? Thanks

[BhupendraPatel]

Another way to do Version Control is to use Azure DevOps. But sharepoint is good alternative as well.

[harsimranjeetsingh]

Good to have version history for one using office 365 and for the one who is not familiar with Git for version control

[Gunterlund]

Im excited about trying this out. Now I followed your vid and put in comments. Im not seeing them however in the classic view. What else am I missing

[scramiro]

Hi Ruth, are you still using this method or maybe a new one? perfect that with OneDrive I don't need to change the name of the file and won't mess up PBI Service with different names. But the "comments" option it is important. I tend to hide a page in each PBI file with the changelog, or maybe I could use External Tool to document changes... but I find difficult to match this "version control" option with the changelog I keep offline. Maybe in my offline changelog doc I need to add the time that I saved changes on OneDrive? I don't know... could you explain how you do this after 4 years from this video? thanks!

[seanmacdonald]

Hi Ruth, in the new sharepoint if you check out the file, upload new one, checkin, it will prompt you to enter comments. You can also enforce checkin/out in the site doc settings

[mallikarjunareddy]

hi curbal, i shared nice videos but i have one doubt please sloved my problem, " how change the new power bi version file to old power bi version file".

[Gunterlund]

ruth even in classic sharepoint mode my comments do not show up. Any other way to get this to work? I see my versions but not the comments and Im loading the file in classic mode

[markhenderson]

How about using Power Automate (or Python?) to upload a file to SharePoint with a comment?

[OlivierTravers]

I ran into the very same issues. SharePoint versioning metadata and check in/out support is very poor in other Microsoft products. It's not part of Flow nor OneDrive, which is pretty infuriating when you're trying to build an internal Github-like collaborative experience to handle multiple authors working on the same PBIX files.

[palloxtheonlyone]

Please be aware that using git, AzureDevOps or TFS/VSTS even via Visual Studio enhances the possibilities to keep track of the changes as you and others are able to comment every change one made

[damarh]

this is not specific to Power Bi files ?

versioning on OneDrive works for more files.