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Workspaces, capacity, and live reports

A live report needs a workspace and enough capacity to refresh. Those settings are administration, not DAX. I treat them as part of handover. If a refresh that used to run now fails, the first check is often the workspace, not the measure.

What I set before release

Who owns the workspace, who can publish, and which capacity the dataset is on. A report that sits on a personal workspace is not handed over.

The gateway and the schedule have to match that workspace. A dataset that refreshes in my workspace and is then copied is not a release.

What fails later

Capacity is full, a licence lapses, or a publisher leaves and the workspace has no owner. The visual then looks stale.

Those are reporting operations. I investigate them alongside the warehouse job, not after a redesign of the page.

Questions

Why did a Power BI report stop refreshing after handover?

Often workspace ownership, capacity, or a licence — not the DAX. Administration is part of keeping a live report running.

What workspace work belongs in a handover?

Workspace and capacity management for live reports, agreed before release, so operations can run refresh without a personal workspace.