Forum Discussion
How to Edit or Download a Large Semantic Model (Incremental Refresh Enabled)
- You can't download a PBIX once Large Model + Incremental Refresh is enabled—it's by design.
- You can't disable Large Model format temporarily.
- Re-publishing a local PBIX will overwrite the dataset and may break connected reports.
- Best practice: Keep a local PBIX as your source of truth, use XMLA endpoint or deployment pipelines to make safe edits.
- For JSON table edits, stage and flatten locally before publishing.
- You can't download a PBIX once Large Model + Incremental Refresh is enabled—it's by design.
- You can't disable Large Model format temporarily.
- Re-publishing a local PBIX will overwrite the dataset and may break connected reports.
- Best practice: Keep a local PBIX as your source of truth, use XMLA endpoint or deployment pipelines to make safe edits.
- For JSON table edits, stage and flatten locally before publishing.
Thank you, Shahed. The issue I’m facing now is this: as you mentioned, I opened the Semantic Model in Tabular Editor via the XMLA endpoint, which is correct. However, when I try to modify any queries, everything appears disabled—such as the source, and source type.
How would you suggest making changes in this scenario? thanks
