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getting started with data factory
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
Just moved this to the dataflows subforum.
db042190 once you enable the Microsoft Fabric Trial, you should be able to see a workload selector on the bottom left corner which might have the icon of POwer BI by default. When you click on it you'll see all available workloads where you can pick the one for Data Factory. Below is a screenshot to showcase this:
Once you click on Data Factory you should be able to click on "New" and be able to see the Dataflow Gen2 artifact as well as the Data Pipeline for the Data Factory Workload.
Highly encourage you to give our E2E tutorial a try from the link below:
Let us know if this helps. Happy to answer other related questions to Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric.
