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Automated Way for PBIX to PBIP File Conversion

Problem Statement

As of Sep 4, 2024, one cannot convert a PBIX file to PBIP programmatically and can only be done manually using Power BI Desktop's File > Save As.

PBIP

How can one convert the PBIX file to PBIP in an automated way?

Prerequisites

Power BI Desktop ( This needs to be installed in the system on which we plan to do the file conversion).

Solution

  1. Install the custom module by executing the below command. 
    Install-Module -Name PBIXtoPBIP_PBITConversion
  2. Now, the environment is set for us to execute the command for the file conversion. 
    PBIXtoPBIP_PBITConversion -PBIXFilePath "<<PBIXFilePath>>" -ConversionFileType "<<ConversionFileType>>"

Note

  1. There shouldn't be any other Power BI reports open for this to function
  2. Post the Powershell command execution, one should not make any work across the system on which the command is executed.

Output Results

Output

Data

This would avoid manually converting the PBIX files to PBIP.

Use Cases

One can extract the PBIX file format from the Power BI service via REST API and then leverage this Powershell module to convert the PBIX to PBIP. Thus allowing extraction of the PBIP file format from the Power BI service.


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