Provide API & Library to create local PBIX files

[marco4]

Enable ISVs and system integrators to generate "personal" PBIX files that have a ready-to-use data model and set of filtered data so that a user can navigate into an "exported" dataset. It would be very useful in many applications and service. This could be the format to exchange data models and not just data. It can only provide benefit to the Power BI service also in terms of user adoption,

[skamath]

Yes it would be great if there is Power BI SDK that can be use by .Net framework to create/update PBIX files via program.

[karishgadol]

Another option would be to make pbix a text format. With Tableau we can edit TDS files (simple XML), so we don't actually need an SDK.

[fbcideas_migusr]

Karish: Metadata (data model, queries, and reports ) are already text files (PBIX is an Open XML file - it's just a ZIP). However, the data in the model are compressed and require an API to access that feature.

[sam_vanhoutte]

Please foresee such an API / Object model to edit PBIX. We really need to be able to provision reports and dashboard and just change the connection string in them.

[johan10]

It would be great to programmatically create and modify pbix files!

[fbcideas_migusr]

Indeed a critical feature! For a start it would be great with just a description of files (and formats) of the PBIX content. I.E. which compression techniques are used etc.