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  1. I've been working on #PowerBits (a collection of #PowerShell scripts for #PowerBI 📊 #Admins) recently, and I just made a minor breakthrough. 💪😎👍

    One of the biggest missing features of the Power BI #RESTAPIs right now is the ability to export a #Dataset as a #PBIX file. Of course, you can export a #Report as a PBIX file, and if that Report is bound to a Dataset, then the Dataset will be included with the Report when you export it. However, if the Dataset you need to export doesn't have a Report bound to it (I've started calling this a #BareDataset), then the #RESTAPI can't help you. That Dataset can only be exported manually from the Power BI Service using a web browser. Yuck! 🤮

    To solve this problem:
    1. Find and select a target #BareDataset
    2. Upload a #BlankReport to the same #Workspace
    3. Re-bind the blank Report to the bare Dataset
    4. Export the blank Report as a PBIX file
    5. Delete the blank Report from the Workspace

    Step 1 Complete (mostly) 😅:
    github.com/JamesDBartlett3/Pow