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Have you ever wondered how to convert Power BI metadata (i.e. from Tabular Editor) to a .pbix? Recently, I needed to do this. Thankfully, pbi-tools (and Mathias Thierbach) came to the rescue! This is not supported by Microsoft, but it’s interesting to know that this approach does exist.
In this post, I explain why External Tools are necessary & discuss the challenges in adopting them.
It’s frustrating that in Power BI re-naming measures or moving them to another table will break any visuals using them in reports. Likewise, Power BI does not have a feature to hot-swap measures in visuals, to retain formatting or save time. Here I will show you an easy way to replace multiple measures in a Power BI report, including those used in “broken” visuals. Fix all broken visuals in Power BI reports using this method!
In this article, we look at how the report source control tool pbi-tools can be run in Python, and how to create a basic GUI in Python to support this.
In this article, we look at some tips to best use pbi-tools and how to automate pbi-tools execution in the background, using Power Automate Desktop flows.
pbi-tools is a command-line tool that enables Source / Version Control of Power BI (thin) reports and datasets. Much like the folder structure generated by Tabular Editor, pbi-tools creates a Report Layout structure based on files in the .pbix. In these articles, we go into the background of this tool & how to use it.
An important note if you are using Sensitivity Labels - files with Sensitivity Labels are currently not supported with pbi-tools. More info on that at the bottom of the article.
