External Tools Ribbon is missing

[mattao44]

I have installed the latest Power BI Desktop as well as th latest DAX Studio however the External Tools Ribbon is still missing. Any ideas?

[victoria03]

Have you tried Downloading the  Business Ops program and downloading those tools from there? Here.. 

https://powerbi.tips/product/business-ops/

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi  @mattao44 ,

You don't have external tools in Power Bi Desktop by default, you need to register the the tool in Desktop. Please follow the tutorial:

https://docs.microsoft.com/zh-cn/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-external-tools#dax-studio 

This is a link to related content, I hope it will help you:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/External-Tools-Missing-from-Ribbon/m-p/1240049

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/External-tool-ribbon/m-p/1390875

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/External-Tools-in-Power-BI-Desktop-July-2020-update/m-p/122...

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[Anonymous]

Hi @mattao44 

This should not be a case. Please share your screen shot.

Also, There is a newver version available in march. you may want to update to it.