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fhtino
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

Multiple expressions.tmdl

I'm playing around with Power BI Desktop PBIP projects and TMDL files. I store them on a GIT repository. Using GIT allows different developers to work together. Among other things, the expressions.tm...
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lbendlin
Super User
2 years ago

Great idea.  See if you can get Matthias' attention.

 

If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/?forum=2d80fd4a-16cb-4189-896b-e0dac5e08b41

 

Note:  Parameters and Expressions are NOT the same thing.  Expressions are all the artefacts that are not Partitions (which are loaded into VertiPaq).

 

Note2:  Parameters pointing to local folders will be useless in the service anyway.

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fhtino
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

Sorry for the confusion about Parameters and Expressions. I am a Power BI basic user struggling to find a way to store power bi projects under GIT.


Local paths: yes, you are right. Absolutely not useful in the service but very important for local activities, in particular during development phases if more than one dev works on the same project, or same dev from different PC. Apart from paths, there could be other parameters tied to local settings. So an "externalization" feature, at least only just for parameters, would be very useul.

 

Idea: https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b467731c-fdd5-ee11-92bd-000d3a0f7b2e