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Power BI PBIT file format

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Barry Boer, de on 17 Jan 2024 06:52:37

We would like to be able to do more with the PBIT file format of Power BI. We would like to store reports in this format so we can push them in Devops Git repositories.

Storing these in pbix has significant drawbacks, not only in size, but also for security reasons.

This would enable us to keep versions of Power BI reports in git and also, if we could deploy pbit format, use pipelines to automatically deploy them.


  • PBIT in json format to benefit (git) versioning
  • Powershell: ability to publish pbit to Power BI service


regards

Barry

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Josh Turnbull on 13 Jun 2024 09:44:24

RE: Power BI PBIT file format

I believe this is what the pbip format was created for. I think pbits can't be published because the standard office template format means you can only ever save a template; you can't ever open a template as such, it just creates a new file with all the content from the template populated.If it helps, we put the .pbix extension in the gitignore file so we can guarantee pbixs are never committed