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didierterrien / Power-BI-Sidetools

Power BI Sidetools is a free Power BI external tool intended to increase productivity during reports development in Power BI desktop.
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Error opening from saved PBIX file: "A pbix file couldn't be found" #35

Closed droofus closed 1 year ago

droofus commented 1 year ago

Hello,

After installing and trying to open the external tool from Power BI Desktop, I got this error. Would a portable version fix?

Thanks

"A pbix file couldn't be found. May be you didn't save your report. Power BI Sidetools will run with limited features. If you want full features, just close Sidetools, save your report and run it again."

Log: [12-16-2022 09:34:44] Command line : "localhost:62588" "4e7f9148-f63b-4c5e-bcec-faaa0e6e47ea" [12-16-2022 09:34:48] Power BI selected instance identified [12-16-2022 09:34:49] Folders initialised [12-16-2022 09:34:49] Power BI file name identified [12-16-2022 09:34:49] Connected [12-16-2022 09:34:49] File system watcher error : The path is not of a legal form. [12-16-2022 09:34:49] Initialisation completed [12-16-2022 09:34:49] Updates checked [12-16-2022 09:34:57] Create Custom analyser directory [12-16-2022 09:34:58] After create Custom analyser directory [12-16-2022 09:34:58] File exists [12-16-2022 09:34:58] Before unzip Custom analyser [12-16-2022 09:34:58] After unzip Custom analyser [12-16-2022 09:35:11] Create PBI Tools directory [12-16-2022 09:35:12] After create PBI Tools directory [12-16-2022 09:35:12] File exists [12-16-2022 09:35:12] Before unzip PBI Tools [12-16-2022 09:35:12] After unzip PBI Tools [12-16-2022 09:35:24] B Process Click error : The path is not of a legal form.

didierterrien commented 1 year ago

Hello droofus, Thanks for reporting your issue. It seems the report you start with is a pbit. Do you confirm ? If yes, please save your report as a pbix and retry Otherwise, please describe the steps to help me to reproduce the issue

droofus commented 1 year ago

Hello and thanks for the quick response.

I can confirm I am opening a saved pbix file and not pbit.

My steps are pretty straight forward: Open pbix, Click on Power BI side tools from External Tools.

I am on a work laptop so while I can get admin rights to install, I am wondering if that is it.

didierterrien commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your reply I suppose you use Version 1.3.0 ? Which version of Windows do you run ? I am not sure it's a problem with admin rights. Can you try with another Pbix? Please choose a very simple one. Be sure your Pbix file extension is '.pbix' (lower case)

didierterrien commented 1 year ago

Without reply, I close the issue. Feel free tor re-open