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mattao44
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External Tools Ribbon is missing

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?

 

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v-yangliu-msft
Community Support
Community Support

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

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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victoria03
Regular Visitor

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

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

v-yangliu-msft
Community Support
Community Support

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

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

pranit828
Community Champion
Community Champion

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.





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