Category: Power BI

You often want to change the source of a Power BI report to another semantic model: a newer version of the semantic model was published or you just want to easily switch between the development and production semantic models for instance. Usually to do so, you would just download the report as a pbix file… Read more

The new Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL for short) has been around for almost a year now. TMDL is meant to simplify collaboration and facilitate the reading by human beings of tabular models. With the February 2024 Fabric update, TMDL can now be set up to be the new default format when saving tabular models… Read more

In my previous blog post about Power BI CI/CD & git integration, we discussed the basics of the .pbip format and how to set it up on a simple environment. In that environment, we were working with only a single Power BI workspace which was linked to a main branch in an Azure DevOps git… Read more

For many years, having several developers work on the same Power BI report was challenging to say the least. Merging multiple reports into a unique one often gave headaches to Power BI report developers. Tools like AML Toolkit existed to merge semantic model changes (tables, columns, measures, etc.) but even with such tools, the task… Read more

Git integration and Continous Integration / Continous Delivery (or CI/CD in short) set up for Power BI reports and semantic models used to be quite a tedious task until very recently. Pseudo-solutions existed, involving a mix of tools like pbi-tools, .bim file export from Tabular Editor and custom tasks in Azure DevOps pipelines (like Power… Read more