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Community ChampionPower BI Dataflows Legacy. What does it mean for us
DebbieE, are you referring to the name of the connector in Power BI Desktop?
The Legacy connector enumerates only Power BI workspaces and their dataflows, while the newer "Dataflows" connector also lists PowerApps environments and their dataflows. Don't worry, dataflows are not going anywhere, this is just a way to differentiate the older and narrower connector. I haven't heard anything about Microsoft phasing out the older Power BI dataflow connector.
The old connector uses the PowerBI.Dataflows M syntax while the new one is PowerPlatform.Dataflows. You can't simply substitute PowerBI with PowerPlatform in your M source step as the subsequent navigation step is different. If you want to future proof, you may want to start using the new connector, documented here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/dataflows
Hi, I have noticed that only the legacy dataflow connector supports Direct Query.
Any idea if other dataflow connectors are going to support it ?
As tagged "legacy", i am not very confortable using those now.
Thanks
I finally found the documentation that explains it:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/dataflows-gen2-overview#feature-overview
Not easy to find though.