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getting started with data factory
so here is what i am running into...
1) if i follow GracerGu's suggested link, i immediately find that in the power bi service there is no default icon as mentioned there but that is just the beginningh of my issues i think ("Select the default Power BI icon at the bottom left of the screen, and switch to the Data Factory experience.")
2) if instead of going thru the power bi service like Grace's link suggests, i continue trying to create the pipeline i showed in the first post of this thread, and i basically attempt to create a new power query as shown in the 1st image below, i dont get the experience described at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-power-query-activity , where i am supposed to be presented with the ability to create a dataset as in other products like power bi desktop. see 2nd image for the experience i'm supposed to get.
3) i'm surprise my existing pbi datasets dont show in the ds drop downs for adf. i published one to a workspace other than "my workspace" and it didnt make a difference. i'm not seeing any truth to the advertising claim/implication that this is all integrated.
The experience you pasted https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-power-query-activity is in Azure Data Factory product only.
In Fabric Data Factory, Power Query experience is in dataflow refer to Create your first Microsoft Fabric dataflow - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn.
data source managment and connector types supported refer to Data source management - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn and Connector overview - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn.
thx, so if we focus for a minute on azure data factory , why is it that im not seeing the ability to have the power query building experience shown at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-power-query-activity ? is this the wrong forum for azure data factory? which is correct? frankly the fabric thing and which forum is which is quite confusing. when i go to the service (using this url https://app.powerbi.com/home ) i end up here https://app.powerbi.com/home?experience=power-bi .
and if we now focus on your fabric link, do i need to set up an account different from my azure tenant in order to follow the example there? If not, why dont i see the pbi icon or df experience in the pbi service? What is meant by "Switch to the Data factory or Power BI experience"? from where? and can i try this part of the fabric product out for free? will it replace azure df?
i assigned a data factory contributor role to myself in the azure portal and see nothing still. When i tried the link at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/fabric-trial#start-the-fabric-preview-trial to try the preview trial i land in pbi instead of where that learning item says i should. when i launch the df studio from the portal, i land in my df instance but again with no capability of a power query creation experience like the one i get in pbi desktop etc. can someone pls help.
For Azure Data Factory questions, use Newest 'azure-data-factory' Questions - Stack Overflow
For PQ experience, recommended to start from Fabric dataflow. You can check the prerequisites in Create your first Microsoft Fabric dataflow - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
miguel for further comments if have. And move this thread to Dataflows - Microsoft Fabric Community
