PBI Direct Lake Model - Move from dev workspace to test workspace

[KJarvis]

Hello,

I've created a direct lake model in our DEV workspace pointing to the lakehouse in DEV.  I tried moving the semantic model across a deployment pipeline from our DEV workspace to TEST.  However, the model is still pointing to the lakehouse in DEV, not TEST.

I am not able to set a deployment rule in the pipeline or even manually change the lakehouse connection from DEV to TEST.

Is there a way to easily repoint the lakehouse connection in a direct lake model?

[Amar_Kumar]

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[Amar_Kumar]

@KJarvis 

As of today there is no supported way to “re-point” a Direct Lake semantic model from one Lakehouse to another (DEV → TEST) after it has been created, either via:

• Deployment pipeline rules

• Power BI dataset parameters

• Manual connection editing in Service

Recommended Approach 

Rebuild the semantic model in TEST

The only fully supported method:

1. Go to the TEST lakehouse

2. Create your semantic model directly connected to it

3. Copy measures or .bim from DEV

4. Re-publish into TEST

No pipeline required — you build one model per environment.

[KJarvis · Accepted solution]

I was doing some more research and I found another thread that mentioned using a notebook to change connections:

Point semantic model to a new Lakehouse 

This seems to work, though it points to SQL endpoint of lakehouse instead of to the lakehouse.  I also get an error if I use a composite model - I guess using a field parameter in the model changes it to a composite model.

[v-menakakota]

Hi @KJarvis ,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.
Can you please confirm whether the issue is sorted or not?

Best Regards, 
Community Support Team.