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Anonymous
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9 years ago

metadata / data dictionary

Hello there,

 

So my least preferred step in any sort of development - "documentation stage". I am documenting data items / relationships of my powerbi data model. I wonder if anyone has tips of how to export data columns into excel or anything similar?

 

How do you tackle this apart from manually writing this?

 

I seemed to remember in PowerPivot there is BISMTabular template that someone has developped. Apologies if I couldnt remember the source here.

 

Really appreciate your tips.... thanks guys.

 

Pedzilla

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  • Eric_Zhang's avatar
    Eric_Zhang
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago
    Anonymous wrote:

    Hello there,

     

    So my least preferred step in any sort of development - "documentation stage". I am documenting data items / relationships of my powerbi data model. I wonder if anyone has tips of how to export data columns into excel or anything similar?

     

    How do you tackle this apart from manually writing this?

     

    I seemed to remember in PowerPivot there is BISMTabular template that someone has developped. Apologies if I couldnt remember the source here.

     

    Really appreciate your tips.... thanks guys.

     

    Pedzilla

    Anonymous

    Unfortunately there's no metadata dictionary for the dataset model in Power BI, though it really sounds a good idea. You can check this idea stronger metadata & lineage support and vote it up.