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Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

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Maria Balsamo on 11 Aug 2015 23:57:48

Today, it's difficult for the user to discover which dashboards, reports and datasets are related to which content pack they are using.

This leads people to accidentally deleting something they were using. It's also confusing for the person building the content pack.

Ideally, this would be more obvious in the UI.

Administrator on 18 Nov 2015 03:38:51

Thanks for voting on this idea! We are looking into ways to make this experience better.

Comments (7)

Comments (7)

Fredrik Vestin on 05 Jul 2020 22:19:16

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

This is a must. Currently I cannot recommend our users to build anything in the Power BI Service because changes in the content pack are frequent and to get new content users need to "Get Data" to get new datasets within the content pack. This results in many duplicate datasets and users have no idea what reports/dashboards that use what dataset. When deleting a dataset you just get a general warning that reports will be deleted but you have no way of knowing if you have any reports baswed on that dataset as the message is identical regardless of which. Ideally give a message saying that these reports and dashboard will be affected/deleted if this dataset is deleted.

Hristina Popova on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:19

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

It's also very confusing when multiple content packs have a dataset/report/dashboard with the same name - it's very hard to tell which came from where!

DDSG Big Data Service Account on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:37

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

Are we having this feature in nearby time? Any idea

Nagarjuna on 05 Jul 2020 22:03:52

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

Implementing this feature is very good idea and even needed for good user experience

Gee434 on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:55

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

Please provide the ability to view connected dashboards/reports/datasets from each of PowerBI reports and datasets. It is starting to spin out easily and will help to clean up the unneeded reports/datasets. Currently it does not provide a warning with list of connected items.

Daragh Fitzpatrick on 05 Jul 2020 21:57:33

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

There is a higher-rated request regarding changing data sources, which I see as a data lineage & meta-data management challenge, specifically with the need for impact & dependency checks. I see this as similar and have made the general suggestion for meta-data management.

Maria Balsamo on 05 Jul 2020 21:57:05

RE: Easily discover which datasets and reports are related to which content packs

Now that we can view all the old & existing reports and data models, it's not clear which ones are being used by current dashboards and which ones are not.

So, I now have a mess of old reports and data models. And I don't know which ones I can safely delete w/out affecting my dashboards.

I need a way to see which ones are not being used (reports & data models) so I can clean everything up and delete the old un-used ones.