Use Source Control with your Power BI Report in Microsoft Fabric!

People have been asking for source control with Power BI reports for a long time. It's here in Microsoft Fabric! Adam explores how to set this up.

Introduction to Git integration (preview)

Manage a workspace with Git (preview)

Power BI Desktop projects (PREVIEW)

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[ChrisWagnerDatagod]

The MOST important Power BI video in years. Bookmark this video.

[KNP-BI]

Would love a follow up video to this showing pipeline automation and recommended setup for full CI/CD.

[akhilannan]

What I usually prefer is having just one development workspace hooked up with Git and using deployment pipelines to move from development to testing to production.

[ezequielaguirre]

Hey! Great video! I think you should go a step further with Git + Deployment Pipelines integration. I found this was the best option for me and works smoothly. Also, if you could comment what kind of licence you need to implement each case would be great!
Watch your videos all the time! You are amazing!

[manuelgarr]

Thanks Adam! You're the REAL MVP!! This is EXACTLY what we have been waiting for to manage our Power BI projects.

[marlucaplus]

Thanks for sharing Adam! this is exactly how I was working and it's great to see you guys doing it to compare best practices for repo integration. I guess we just need to wait for an automatic way of pulling the changes to the workspace and update the App with Rest API and we could finally build an amazing version controlled by environment CICD.
I can't stop thinking that deployment pipelines will be a different approach but not necessary if we keep this amazing practices keeping developers working with repos and DataOps with Fabric.

[jjethwa]

What an awesome video - just what I needed. Agree with comments - how does this work with Deployment Pipelines?

[fmeckbl]

Q: What if two developers are working on the same dashboard at the same time?
Q: What if two reports are connected to the same model and we create new measures in both the reports then how will it work?
Q: Will it work when we use a live connection to develop a new report?

Just some quick questions. Great video!!!!

[ThePilli]

well this is cool and long awaited! Thank you for the intro!
@GuyInACube how do you make the terminal to display the branch in the path?! that is awesome

[B-Luv]

Should we use deployment pipelines in this process? For example, only push via git to the dev workspace and then use deployment pipeline to push up to the higher lifecycles? Is this not advised?

[jaroslavmarko]

This is a perfect video, thanks. I would like to understand how does this concept connect with Pipelines. Is there a Video on this, please?

[MilhouseBS]

Happy to see heavy command line Git. It's the best way to learn.

[technicalanveshana]

That's cool!! Can you also do a follow up video on how to roll back to any of the previous commits no one have explained this any of the videos or blogs that would be really helpful

[topher]

So many questions.
-can we report on the commit messages like we can with GitHub?

-is this functionality ideal for report source control?

-I’ve been using Tabular Editor + TMDL + GitHub for semantic model source control - and I’m loving it. Could you walk through this process for a large dataset that is managed solely via XMLA endpoint?

[bravucod]

Q: where do you guys learn all this stuff? I feel kind of lost

[GisleHoelAarhus]

So pull requests deploys the changes directly to the prod ws in power bi ? Pipelines is not necessary ? Thank you for a great video!

[FedericoBonarrigo]

@GuyInACube I'm a little bit confused by the different options to manage deployments at this point. Should I use the paradigm of git branches or PowerBI development pipelines?

[josephdagostino]

Can this be set up to work with deployment pipelines in any meaningful way?

[jackc]

Is there a way of linking to a devops account on a different tennant? Also be great if this functionality was directly within the desktop app

[remek]

Big Question: yay or nay for mapping data flows in Data Factory (FABRIC) this year?