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Development and production Reports

Use the same native Report and model in both workspaces. The selected workspace configuration changes their physical names and the Report's deployed model binding; it does not change their logical names or authored files.

Continue from Deploy a native Report in the same parcel project. If you are starting here, that page generates and deploys the pair. Keep your model overlays and source bindings.

Select the two destinations

Create workspace-development.yml and workspace-production.yml for two existing disposable workspaces. If you already have these files from the estate pages, add the two targets to each instead. These inline-model destinations need no source workload. For an estate with Lakehouse or Warehouse items, copy the working configuration instead, retain its catalogue, runtime and source bindings, and change only the intended destinations. A production-labelled example is not a reason to use a real production workspace.

workspace-development.yml
workspace: Parcel Development
targets:
  SemanticModel/Parcel: Parcel_Dev
  Report/Parcel: Parcel_Report_Dev
workspace-production.yml
workspace: Parcel Production
targets:
  SemanticModel/Parcel: Parcel_Production
  Report/Parcel: Parcel_Report_Production

SemanticModel/Parcel and Report/Parcel remain the logical items in both files. The Report's native definition.pbir still contains the same byPath to ../Parcel.SemanticModel.

Build and check each binding

Use an identity with model/Report create or update and readback rights in each workspace. Build updates existing selected items, so choose names you own.

weaver check
weaver build --item SemanticModel/Parcel --item Report/Parcel --workspace-config workspace-development.yml

The command returned:

Terminal output exit 0
Workspace  Parcel Development
Catalogue  none
Targets
  SemanticModel/Parcel → SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev
  Report/Parcel → Report/Parcel_Report_Dev


Build

  Resolve semantic data sources                                                                            0.0s
    Resolve SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev                                                                       0.0s
    Resolve Report/Parcel_Report_Dev                                                                       0.0s
  Read target inventories                                                                                  0.2s
  Read semantic sources                                                                                    0.0s
  Prepare bundle                                                                                           0.0s
Install selection
  SemanticModel/Parcel
    changed                 1
    selected for build      1
  Report/Parcel
    changed                 1
    selected for build      1

→   SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev · Deploy semantic definitions · 1 action
✓   SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev · Deploy semantic definitions · 1 action                                     21.5s
→   SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev, Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Verify deployed semantic definitions · 1 action
✓   SemanticModel/Parcel_Dev, Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Verify deployed semantic definitions · 1 action   20.5s
→   Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Deploy Report definitions · 1 action
✓   Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Deploy Report definitions · 1 action                                       20.4s
→   Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Verify deployed Report definitions · 1 action
✓   Report/Parcel_Report_Dev · Verify deployed Report definitions · 1 action                              21.2s
  Install                                                                                                 1m23s
✓ Build                                                                                                   1m23s

Installation
    4 succeeded
    0 failed
    0 skipped
  Report  [local-path]
  Bundle  d4da8e0cdf80545685fe83c06a61f3362febf0fdb2eb4bca4d3d7d46794c8e72

weaver build --item SemanticModel/Parcel --item Report/Parcel --workspace-config workspace-production.yml

The command returned:

Terminal output exit 0
Workspace  Parcel Production
Catalogue  none
Targets
  SemanticModel/Parcel → SemanticModel/Parcel_Production
  Report/Parcel → Report/Parcel_Report_Production


Build

    Create SemanticModel/Parcel_Production                                                                20.7s
    Create Report/Parcel_Report_Production                                                                20.7s
  Create Power BI items                                                                                   41.4s
  Resolve semantic data sources                                                                            0.0s
    Resolve SemanticModel/Parcel_Production                                                                0.0s
    Resolve Report/Parcel_Report_Production                                                                0.0s
  Read target inventories                                                                                  0.2s
  Read semantic sources                                                                                    0.0s
  Prepare bundle                                                                                           0.0s
Install selection
  SemanticModel/Parcel
    changed                 1
    selected for build      1
  Report/Parcel
    changed                 1
    selected for build      1

→   SemanticModel/Parcel_Production · Deploy semantic definitions · 1 action
✓   SemanticModel/Parcel_Production · Deploy semantic definitions · 1 action                              21.1s
→   SemanticModel/Parcel_Production, Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Verify deployed semantic definitions · 1 action
✓   SemanticModel/Parcel_Production, Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Verify deployed semantic definitions · 1 action   20.7s
→   Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Deploy Report definitions · 1 action
✓   Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Deploy Report definitions · 1 action                                20.4s
→   Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Verify deployed Report definitions · 1 action
✓   Report/Parcel_Report_Production · Verify deployed Report definitions · 1 action                       21.4s
  Install                                                                                                 1m23s
✓ Build                                                                                                   2m05s

Installation
    4 succeeded
    0 failed
    0 skipped
  Report  [local-path]
  Bundle  60e0d5ff7a64ba24ad9343689bb3d21e20e64d604f85edf1fe5817076faaa6f0


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from pathlib import Path

import weaver

project = Path("builtin") / "project"
build_result = weaver.build(
    source=project,
    items=['SemanticModel/Parcel', 'Report/Parcel'],
    workspace='Parcel Production',
)
build_result.report()

The command returned:

Notebook output
{'source': '.',
 'items': ['SemanticModel/Parcel', 'Report/Parcel'],
 'bundle_id': '[bundle-id]',
 'installation': True,
 'bundle_path': None,
 'status': 'succeeded',
 'errors': [],
 'actions': {'total': 4, 'succeeded': 4, 'skipped': 0, 'failed': 0},
 'report_path': '[local-path]'}

Each Build ran in its own workspace and selected the linked model with the Report, as a catalogue-free project requires. If the development pair is already deployed, only the production Build is new work.

Check each Report's actual service binding, including the workspace, not just the displayed item names:

Configuration Workspace Report Linked semantic model
workspace-development.yml Parcel Development Parcel_Report_Dev Parcel_Dev
workspace-production.yml Parcel Production Parcel_Report_Production Parcel_Production

In each workspace’s lineage view, follow the deployed Report’s semantic-model link. Confirm both its name and workspace against the table above. The production Report must link to Parcel_Production, not to the development model. The source byPath remains unchanged.

For a viewing check, refresh each model with refresh permission, then open each Report with view/query permission:

weaver load SemanticModel/Parcel --workspace-config workspace-development.yml
weaver load SemanticModel/Parcel --workspace-config workspace-production.yml

The command returned:

Terminal output exit 0
Load

  Resolve semantic models                                                                                  0.5s
  Read catalogue                                                                                           0.0s
Workspace  Parcel Production
Catalogue  none
Targets
  SemanticModel/Parcel → SemanticModel/Parcel_Production

  Build run graph                                                                                          0.0s
→   Load SemanticModel/Parcel
✓   Load SemanticModel/Parcel                                                                              7.7s
  Execute                                                                                                  7.7s
✓ Load                                                                                                     8.2s

load succeeded: SemanticModel/Parcel

Load summary
    1 succeeded
    0 failed
    0 blocked


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from pathlib import Path

import weaver

project = Path("builtin") / "project"
load_result = weaver.load(
    items=['SemanticModel/Parcel'],
    source=project,
    workspace='Parcel Development',
)
load_result.report()

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from pathlib import Path

import weaver

project = Path("builtin") / "project"
load_result = weaver.load(
    items=['SemanticModel/Parcel'],
    source=project,
    workspace='Parcel Production',
)
load_result.report()

The command returned:

Notebook output
{'requested': ['SemanticModel/Parcel'],
 'status': 'succeeded',
 'dry_run': False,
 'fault_tolerant': False,
 'reload': False,
 'ignore_stability_threshold': False,
 'workspace': 'Parcel Development',
 'workflow_id': None,
 'started_at': '2026-10-17T07:49:54.266779+00:00',
 'finished_at': '2026-10-17T07:49:59.083353+00:00',
 'order': ['load:SemanticModel/Parcel'],
 'edges': [],
 'nodes': [{'node_id': 'load:SemanticModel/Parcel',
            'logical_id': 'SemanticModel/Parcel',
            'physical_target': 'SemanticModel/Parcel',
            'primitive_kind': 'semantic_refresh',
            'dispatch_location': 'groups/[item-id]/datasets/[item-id]/refreshes',
            'status': 'succeeded',
            'executed': True,
            'started_at': '2026-10-17T07:49:54.269696+00:00',
            'finished_at': '2026-10-17T07:49:59.082899+00:00',
            'rows': {'status': 'Completed',
                     'request_id': '[item-id]',
                     'start_time': '2026-10-17T07:49:54.557',
                     'end_time': '2026-10-17T07:49:57.923',
                     'error_message': None,
                     'succeeded': True},
            'messages': []}],
 'messages': []}

Each model returns Delivery Count = 2, so open each Report and its card shows 2. Model refresh and Report rendering are separate checks from Build and binding; there is no Report Load or Test.

An unrelated authored byConnection with no local model association stays as authored. Weaver does not reverse-map that external connection to a development or production model. The linked-pair behaviour above applies to the local association; Report binding rules also describe same-name model precedence and the catalogue-backed Report-only case.

The Report now follows its model into each workspace without a source edit. When you also need to move its Lakehouse or Warehouse sources, use workspace and environment mappings for the whole project. Destination names alone do not change source expressions or credentials. For changes to the model itself, return to native TMDL and overlays.

Remove only the example items

When you are done, delete the example Reports and models from both workspaces.