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Fabricator
New Member
2 years ago

Adding a column to a Fabric sematic model table

When I add a new column to a table (in Fabric Lakehouse) it does not appear when I refresh the Fabric semantic model. I have to go to 'edit tables', remove the table, and then add it again, causing m...
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tjreaume
Frequent Visitor
1 year ago

By the sounds of it the workaround is to have Power BI desktop installed and work from there.  Being a developer of the warehouse and the semantic models I do not actually create the reports and do not have Power BI desktop installed at this time as I'm working only through the Fabric applications or 3rd party Tabular editor.  Will it work if you use the Power BI service that is embedded in Fabric - has anyone tried?

 

Seems a bit silly that you can create models and so on in the service but cannot edit or adjust them for schema changes without leaving the workspace environment.

 

But will give the Power BI desktop a go as I'm getting very tired of having to rebuild my semantic model every time I make a fact table structure change during the development cycle.