Fix Visuals or Replace Measures in Power BI Reports using pbi-tools

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!

Track Changes in Power BI: Part 4 -Reports

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.

View & Edit Power Query in Tabular Editor

Tabular Editor is not only a helpful tool for developing DAX. You can also use it to view & modify your Power Query M code, without ever opening Power BI desktop. Furthermore, there also exists a formatter for Power Query that can help you make your code easier to read & manage. Here, I walk through the basics, the use-cases, and a small tutorial on how to do this, yourself.

Track Changes in Power BI: Part 3 - Workspace Mode

Using Tabular Editor 3 & Workspace mode, source control is that much easier, even when using Branching!
In this article, I explain how workspace mode in Tabular Editor 3 makes Source Control easy by letting you simultaneously save changes to disk but also to a service dataset for testing. I then explain how this can work when collaborating on a model, for example, using Git Branching in Power BI development.