Question

Your team maintains a certified shared semantic model published to a Fabric workspace. A report author wants to build several new reports in Power BI Desktop that all connect to this existing certified model, without importing or duplicating any data, and they want the .pbip files stored in Git for version control. Which approach should the author use to create these thin reports?

Accepted Answer

Use Get Data with a live connection to the published Power BI semantic model, then save each report in the .pbip project format.

Answer

Import the data from the shared semantic model into each new report using DirectQuery, then save as .pbix.

Answer

Download the certified model as a .pbit template and distribute it so each author builds their own local model.

Answer

Export the semantic model definition via the XMLA endpoint and embed a copy in each report file.