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PBI Direct Lake Model - Move from dev workspace to test workspace
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.
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:
Go to the TEST lakehouse
Create your semantic model directly connected to it
Copy measures or .bim from DEV
Re-publish into TEST
No pipeline required — you build one model per environment.
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.
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.
