We are happy to announce that we have a new version of Tabular Editor 3 out. This is our first update in 2024. We hope you enjoy this release! If you just can’t wait, do head on over to downloads to get the release. Improvements We’ve made several improvements in the February release and we […]
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Tabular Editor 2’s CLI is often used in CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.) to perform certain tabular model related actions, such as running a Best Practice Analysis, performing a schema check or deploying the model to a destination server. The CLI was designed in 2016, before Power BI and even Azure Analysis Services
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It’s time for this month’s release of Tabular Editor 3 (v. 3.8.0). Here is the monthly blog post with a brief overview of what’s new. Bug reports and feature requests coming from all of you really help, so we wanted to extend a thank you for these. Go to downloads. Improvements Support for Power BI
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Dynamic measure selectors For certain kinds of reports, it sometimes makes sense to be able to select which measures should be displayed by checking off members on a dimension, rather than including individual measures from the field list. There are many blogs and articles online that describe this pattern in more details. You can find
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Multilingual Datasets A little known fact about the Power BI service, is that metadata translations actually work just fine for an imported or DirectQuery dataset within a dedicated capacity workspace (Power BI Premium or A SKUs). You can add metadata translations to a dataset in Premium in two ways: Either through the XMLA read/write endpoint or by
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This is part 5 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 4 Release Pipelines In the previous chapter, we saw how to set up a complete build pipeline, that loads our Tabular model from source control, performs a schema check, runs the Best Practice Analyzer and even performs a validation deployment. At the
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This article provides a step-by-step instruction on how to enable Service Principal (SP) access to a Power BI workspace in dedicated capacity (Power BI Premium or embedded/A sku). In the following, I will try to highlight the minimal number of steps necessary to enable Service Principal authentication. You can find all the details in the
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Exporting Translations Tabular Editor lets you export translations into the same .json file format used by Visual Studio and SSAS Tabular Translator. This is useful if you want to delegate the task of translating your model to someone without access to your tabular model metadata. Let’s say you’ve added a new culture (called “translation” within Tabular
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This is part 4 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 3 Refining the build pipeline In the last chapter, we saw how to set up the first basic build pipeline, which used Tabular Editor to deploy a model from a .bim file or folder structure unto an instance of Analysis Services. It’s
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This is part 3 of the Analysis Services DevOps blog series. Go to part 2 Automation Magic with Azure Pipelines Azure Pipelines is the service within Azure DevOps, that lets us automate our builds and deployments. In short, there are two kinds of pipelines in Azure DevOps: Build Pipelines, which are used to validate code and produce
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