Data Dictionary

Wow, fantastic – thank you so much for getting back to me!

It’s definitely been a journey. We’ve been using a combination of tools – DAX Studio across four files per report to extract Measures, Columns, Tables, and Partitions (Sources) and dumping to share point and intend to use desktop to display a Data Dictionary.

For business logic, we’ve been relying on a virtual table union of Info.view, which, as you rightly pointed out, works reasonably well for single reports.

Our reporting estate is quite large – easily into the hundreds – so I’m really interested in the methods you mentioned. I’ll be doing some research into them. I was aware of parts of what you shared, but haven’t yet had the chance to fully explore or conceptualise how it could be applied across our setup.

If there are any resources you’d recommend based on your response, I’d really appreciate it. I completely understand the need to be cautious with sharing due to confidentiality, of course 😊

Thanks again – genuinely grateful for your response!

To create data dictionaries across multiple PBIX files, try these approaches:
- Use INFO.VIEW DAX functions for metadata inside each PBIX
- Export metadata with DAX Studio or Tabular Editor for batch processing
- Extract and parse schema from PBIT files with Power Query
- For large estates, consider enterprise tools like Microsoft Purview for centralized metadata management