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navarroj
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7 years ago
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Import Power BI Metadata

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?
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  • d_gosbell's avatar
    d_gosbell
    7 years ago

    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. 

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d_gosbell
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7 years ago

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.