Documenting my Data Model for Data Consumers

[lordneeko]

PBI Desktop has A LOT of capability to document your data model. I want to be able to extract this (manually at first, but eventually in an automated way) so I can publish my data model (table names, field names, field types, descriptions, etc) so that data consumers know what the data is, and can decide if it is useful to them.  How can I export this metadata?

[lordneeko]

What I would like to be able to do is generate a "Data Catalog" from all the datasets within my workspace. Does anyone have any insight on how I might be able to pull information utilizing Powershell or something?  Ultimately, I'd like to be able to export the data and post it on a site to allow others to easily see what data is available (trying to knock down the siloes of excellence 😉 )

[Anonymous]

Hi @lordneeko save your file as a Power BI template & their is an app called the documentar app, you will find it om the internet just upload your template file and you would get all these details in shape of a dashboard.

Do mark this as solution if it solves the problem

[lordneeko]

Thank you. That is an option, though we have hard enough time getting major development applications approved on our systems, much less a cloud app where I upload my (potentially) sensitive files.

What does the PBIT contain? I'd like a link to official documentation on what the PBIT contains so I know it wont contain sensitive information.

More importantly, while this may answer my question, I'm not sure it is the best solution. PBI should have a function built-in to do this!