on 18 Oct 2017 02:15:03
Currently, the tool "Save As..." opens the dialog box with the last saved folder.
e.g.: If you opened the file A and saved in a directory X, when you open the file B (saved on directory Y) and click on "Save As", the dialog box will open the directory X instead of Y.
Same goes for "Select Data Sources". If you choose a new directory, when you choose to "Save As" your file, it will direct you to the last Data Sources' directory.
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RE: Save As in Right Folder
For real, implementing such a feature would literally "cost" few minutes of any developer's time.This is not a rocket science, it's something that is a widespread professional standard.And to think that your users have been asking for such a feature ...for 6 years already...
RE: Save As in Right Folder
So this bug is currently a silly feature.Would not of thought it was designed to be like this. Please fix or put the option in so everyone can select this new feature to save to the folder you opened the file from by default.
RE: Save As in Right Folder
I was offered to Auto-recover a pbix that was in progress, opened from a file share. So it had a name.
But when it's opened, the document shows as "Untitled", and when I use Save As... the location I opened from is not in the recent locations list. The file itself is in the MRU list under the file menu, but I have no quick way to use Save As... to replace the file that was being edited, or even save as a neighbor.
RE: Save As in Right Folder
Every other software when you click 'Save As' saves the new file to the same folder as the original file. PowerBI, in keeping with its general incompetence, saves your new file to whatever random folder you happened to be in last. PLEASE change this. It is very frustrating and has no basis in common sense. I spend valuable time searching random folders for files I know I have saved. FIX THIS.
RE: Save As in Right Folder
it is really crazy that this works different than for every other software... Indeed very frustrating!
RE: Save As in Right Folder
I will learn some day, but this is a habit that is long engrained from ALL OTHER OFFICE applications. As a Consultant working on many Power BI files for many customers, I need the Save As to default to the correct folder (of the customer the file belongs to). Instead, it defaults to the last folder I save to (the previous/OTHER customer). This is a BIG problem that I should not need to worry about. Surely we can copy the code and behaviour from Excel??? PLEASE!
RE: Save As in Right Folder
This causes a lot of problems for us since by default, like any other office program, users think their file was 'save as'ed in the same folder as the original file is saved in. Users expect this function to behave like other Microsoft applications. We end up losing and redoing work this way.
RE: Save As in Right Folder
'+ same request
RE: Save As in Right Folder
In the course of a day I accumulated 5 auto-recovered files... I have to open them all and save them out before I can clear the list, but that means I have 5 "untitled documents" open and can hardly tell them apart.