Introducing PBIR Report Format for Power BI (with Rui Romano & Eeshan Shah)

[@JustRandomExplorer]

Great session! I am stoked what is yet to come. Especially seamlessly combining Visual Studio + Power BI desktop simultaneously together when creating / modifying / standardizing reports in the future. Amazing. Please Reid, keep us updated about this. And Thanks Rui and Eeshan.

[@sergiyrazumov5518]

Thanks for great session and great tool. One of the most tedious scenarios I was missing this tool was unlinking visuals that are bound with interactions. Especially when visuals are close to each other and this Edit Intersections menu overlaps.

[@privacyfig]

Once a report is created using PBIR format, can it be reverted back to the old format? Saving it as .PBIX doesn't seem to work for me, as I still get the same warning and inability to publish.

[@HavensConsulting]

Once it's saved in PBIR format it needs to stay in that format, no way to revert back (today). Outside of just going to your OneDrive version history to the previous version of the file.

[@mrbartuss1]

@@HavensConsulting So there's no way to publish the file after saving it as pbir? :o

[@HavensConsulting]

@@mrbartuss1 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/projects/projects-report#external-changes-to-pbir-files you should be able to publish a file that is saved with PBIR format.

[@mrbartuss1]

@@HavensConsulting It seems only through Git Integration

[@HavensConsulting]

@@mrbartuss1 Ah yes, for "publishing" you'd need get correct. But this format is primarily designed for GIT

[@davidm00ris]

Will existing JSON theme files to set visual defaults be compatible with the new PBIR format?

[@HavensConsulting]

Fully supported. Currently this is just a folder and formatting restructuring. No changes to the actual JSON code are being made, so backward compatibility for custom theme files will work :)

[@davidm00ris]

Awesome, the seem like they would work hand in hand but wanted to make sure! Thanks for verifying!

[@anthonylentini2277]

Can you pull all the metric definition using this ?

[@HavensConsulting]

Metric field definitions would be kept in the model layer. You could extract those via C# using Tabular Editor I'd figure :)