Import Power BI Metadata

[navarroj]

Hi There,
We have an excel file with information about tables/columns descriptions. We want to populate them into the model  itself.
Any sugestions on how to do that?

[Saivinith]

if we want to import meta data we have to click transform & load option then it will work

meta data is nothing but data over the data this will be done at power query editor

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

There is no way to do this in Power BI Desktop at present. There are no APIs available which allow for editing the model metadata.

When the read/write XMLA endpoint is released on PowerBI.com you will be able to do this on Premium capacties on PowerBI.com, but it's not clear yet whether models edited in such a way can then be opened in Desktop after they've been modified.