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keviwilso
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8 years ago

Document Power BI Reports - Extract Report Metadata

Hi,   We need to document the enterprise power bi reports as part of a handover to support. Is there a way to generate / extract the report metadata from the PBIX files ?- i.e. data source connecti...
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keviwilso
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Thanks for the reply Xi Jin.

 

I check out your suggestions below which were useful, however it is not clear on how to use Power Query Table.ColumnNames() function. in this context?

 

I did find this really helpful tool on the the radacad.com website which gives me what I want but unfortunately I cannot export the results - hopefully it will be enhanced to do so.

 

Check out the Power BI Helper tool

 

http://radacad.com/power-bi-helper

 

http://radacad.com/expression-dependency-tree-new-feature-of-power-bi-helper

 

 Cheers

Kevin

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    v-xjiin-msft
    Solution Sage
    8 years ago

    Hi keviwilso,

     

    Sorry but this is the third party tool. we don't support it and I haven't used it before. I'm afraid that I cannot help you on this part.:smileysad:

     

    Thanks,
    Xi Jin.

  • tjrobertsnz's avatar
    tjrobertsnz
    New Member
    7 years ago

    Hi Kevin,

     

    Did you manage to work out how to do this? Have you checked out Data Vizioner (https://www.datavizioner.com)? Its designed to help you document BI dashboards so it shows many of the things you mentioned in your post.

     

    Tim