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...
I'd like this feature too. I'd use the API to create metadata templates for the files we need to analyse in migration and data transfer projects. I currently achieve this using bespoke code that converts Excel based record layouts into machine readable templates that then need yet more code to analyse. It would also be acceptable to have PowerBI templates in a format that can be created pragmatically; such as XML, JSON format and then imported to PowerBI. I won't be able to use PowerBI efficiently until a feature such as this is provided. My organisation is getting really interested in what PowerBi can do; but this gap in the feature set is holding things back.
