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Marcin
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ALM Toolkit error

Hi,

 

doeas anybody use the ALM Toolkit to copmare two datamodels from PowerBI desktop files ?

 

When I try to use this tool I get an error:

"Analysis Server is not running in Tabular mode"

 

I will be grateful for help.

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v-frfei-msft
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Community Support

Hi @Marcin ,

 

How did you connect to the model? As the post hereit currently doesn't work with the local Power BI Desktop AS instance. When we open up the XMLA endpoint on Power BI (soon), it will work with the Power BI service in the first version.

 

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
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ALM toolkit works great.  I do recognie that Datasets modified by using the XMLA endpoint can't be downloaded to a .pbix file, but the issue that I am having is that a report connected to that dataset once I have made modifications using the ALM toolkit also cannot be downloaded.  No issues with other reports in the workspace connected to other datasets which have not been modified using ALM.  Any help would be appreciated.  Has anyone come across this issue and found a solution?

 

 
 

 

ALM issue_Report cannot be downloaded.JPG

v-frfei-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Marcin ,

 

How did you connect to the model? As the post hereit currently doesn't work with the local Power BI Desktop AS instance. When we open up the XMLA endpoint on Power BI (soon), it will work with the Power BI service in the first version.

 

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

Hi @v-frfei-msft ,

 

I tried to connect to my local PowerBI desktop file model.

 

Thank you for information. 

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