External Tools in Power BI Desktop July 2020 update

[saraMissBI]

Hello,

I installed the 2020 July update of Power BI Desktop, but I am not getting the External Tools feature to work as expected. The snapshot below shows the icon for "DAX Studio" grayed out.

Any ideas on why I am not able to launch DAX Studio from the External Tools tab, please? I have it disabled in all views (Report, Data, and Model). DAX Studio is installed on my machine. In microsoft docs article about External Tools in Power BI Desktop, they say: "The External Tools ribbon in Power BI Desktop contains buttons for external tools installed on the machine, and registered with Power BI Desktop". (Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-external-tools#how-to-register-exte...

I have DAX Studio installed on my machine, but I am not sure if I need to set up something in it to make it "registered with Power BI Desktop". I am not sure what I am missing. Could anyone help please?

Thank you

[atif-hafeez]

Keep in mind that saving the report file with this preview feature enabled is a non reversible change. So make a copy of the report before you enable this feature. This is especially important for on-prem report server users. You cannot upload a file with enhanced metadata into the report server since its a preview feature

[saraMissBI]

Hi @atif-hafeez ,

Good point! thank you for your message.

[lmblancoancos · Accepted solution]

Hello saraMissBI

Go to Preview features in Power BI, check "Store datasets using enhanced metadata format", and restart Power BI, that must fix the problem, showing external tools enabled

Regards

[saraMissBI]

Hi @lmblancoancos 

Thank you so much for your solution! It is working now 🙂

Best

[Russ]

@lmblancoancos  that fixes the problem. 

Many thanks.

[Russ]

Apologies. Have no fix for this, but have the same issue with both Dax Studio and Tabular Editor. Latest versions of all software installed.

[saraMissBI]

Hi @Russ ,

Thanks for your reply. Could it be a bug? The feature is in preview, so where can I share my feedback about it? 

Thank you