Power BI Designer saves a local PBIX file, which can be a file to export data and data model – in other words, it’s a format that contains a complete semantic model. All the applications that today e...
'With some effort it is possible to read the definition *from* a PBIX file, but programmatically setting elements *to* a PBIX file is not possible due to it's unknown hash. Any way that enables writing to PBIX gives the benefit to automate and professionalize creation and deployment of PBIX files or published reports/dashboards/datasets etc. The outcome of this would be a win-win to further automate standard things ánd when needed still manually work with PBIX files with pragmatism. Examples: - setting custom displaynames eg. different languages, creating - datamodel elements automatically for eg. workflows, like datepoints, steps, durations, calculations, kpi's in the form of columns, calculated columns or measures.
