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    Allow Power BI Designer to open a Dataset or Report published in online Power BI repository

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    Tom Marek on 08 Jan 2015 08:12:27

    If you setup a data source using the Power BI Analysis Services Connector that shows up in the Power BI online Dataset repository you should allow the use of that dataset directly from the Power BI Designer.

    This will allow you to publish reports using the already shared dataset and it also gives you a better experience querying a tabular data source then the Power BI Designer does now when connecting directly to the tabular instance.

    I would say this should also apply to any other 3rd party data source created there for the likes GitHub, Salesforce, etc.

    You should also be able to open reports that have been published and edited in the service in the same way.

    Administrator on 14 May 2016 04:13:06

    We are currently working on the support to re-open pbix files from desktop.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:42

    RE: Allow Power BI Designer to open a Dataset or Report published in online Power BI repository

    I made a report in Power BI Desktop, then published it. I made some changes on PowerBI.com to it by editing the report. Now when I open the pbix file, those changes aren't reflected, and I don't see any way of sending those changes from powerbi.com back to PowerBI Desktop. ARGH!

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    Bjoern Sjut on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:36

    RE: Allow Power BI Designer to open a Dataset or Report published in online Power BI repository

    Just to add to this:

    We have the need to be able to edit datasets that have been populated via Power BI's REST API.

    A typical issue is that after pushing data in via the REST API, we need to fine tune some data points (e.g. different "kinds" of blanks.

    It's currently not possible to iron out these kinks in the data when stuff is published directly to a PowerBI data set via the REST API.