Power BI External Tools

[aduguid]

Here are the External Tools I've setup in Power BI desktop.

 

The order of the buttons in the External Tools menu is determined alphabetically by the JSON file name. To manage this, I use a two-digit number prefix.

Place the .json files in the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Power BI Desktop\External Tools

I used base64-image.de to generate Base64 Image code for icons. To create and modify the icons I used  GIMP.

You can find the JSON files in my GitHub project here. Please update the URLs in the JSON files to match your organization's sites for services like ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence. 

Here is the list of installs for External Tools: 

Name	Location
Analyze in Excel	https://www.sqlbi.com/tools/analyze-in-excel-for-power-bi-desktop/
Bravo	https://github.com/sql-bi/Bravo/releases
DAX Studio	https://daxstudio.org/
Tabular Editor	https://github.com/TabularEditor/TabularEditor/releases/
ALM Toolkit	https://www.sqlbi.com/tools/alm-toolkit/
Power BI Report Builder	https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=734968
SQL Server Management Studio SQL Server Profiler Azure Data Studio	https://aka.ms/ssmsfullsetup
Model Documenter	https://data-marc.com/model-documenter/
Microsoft Loop	https://loop.cloud.microsoft/ (I use this for all of our process documentation)
Measure Killer	https://en.brunner.bi/measurekiller (I haven't tried this one yet)

 Other Tools I use for Power BI:

Description	Location
Animated Files	https://www.screentogif.com/
Image Markup	https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
Image Editor	https://www.gimp.org/
Problem Recording	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/settings/how-to-use-problem-steps-recorder

If you have any other suggestions, please add them in the comments.

There is also an article on Microsoft Learn about External Tools.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @aduguid ,

Thank you so much for sharing these Power BI external tools with the community! Your contribution is greatly appreciated and will definitely help others enhance their Power BI experience. If you have any more tips or resources, please feel free to share them. We’re always eager to learn from each other!

Best regards

[davidding]

@aduguid a lot of tools! where did you get the Jira tool? what does it do?

[aduguid]

That one just points to a website.  We have an integration setup between service now and jira. I have the jira url directly to the board for our weekly sprints for BI projects.