Split PBIX sheets(Tabs) into individual reports

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Hello everyone,

I have a PowerBI .pbix file that consists of 20 individual sheets(Tabs). Every Sheet(tab) in .pbix file represents an individual Report.

What I want to do ?
I would like to separate these sheets(Tabs) and have them as individual reports so that I can later publish them onto the PowerBI Cloud service in form of an APP.

Why I want to do this?
I need to do this to build a better App and be able to split and categorize Reports(Tabs) under specific Sub-categories.

Is this possible? If so, how can I achieve this?

Appreciate your support.

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Hi @TU4ME,
Thank you very much for posting your question in the forum.
You could use the File Save as a pbix file option to generate each of the full pbix copies and then leave the tabs that correspond to each generated pbix file.

Regards

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Hi @jafernandezpuga ,

Could you please explain more? at the end my Data set will be the one from the original .PBIX file or I am missing something? ( I put my .PBIX file on One drive and use get the file from OneDrive for Business to build the App)

Thanks

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Hi @TU4ME

I think what @jafernandezpuga is meaning, forgive me if I’m wrong, is to keep you main file together as I suspect you have a data model that servces all of the individual reports?

When it comes to publishing the individual reports, simply save down a copy with the name that you want “Report 1” and then remove all the tabs/pages you don’t want in this report. Then publish to your app.

Repeat this step for “Report 2” and so on.

Thanks

DJ

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Hi @TU4ME,
If you want to have a single dataset for the 20 reports you want to generate, you can follow these steps:

  1. Backup your pbix file that contains all 20 pages.
    Copy fullreport.pbix as fullreport_copy.pbix
  2. Open your fullreport.pbix file and save it as report_dataset.pbix and remove all pages and visuals from page 1, to leave just the dataset.
  3. Publish report_dataset.pbix to your workspace.
  4. Open fullreport.pbix and under Transform Data, delete all queries. This will cause all the visuals to break, but once we switch to Get Data and connect to the Power BI Dataset we published earlier (report_dataset), they should show again.
    We now have the original report for which we have changed the data source from local to Live Connection.
  5. From this pbix connected to a Power BI dataset, you can follow the save as process to generate all 20 reports sharing the same dataset.

Convert a Power BI imported model to Live Connected : Support (tygraph.com)

Regards

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