I’m excited to announce that our superb group at Information Vizioner has developed a light-weight and straightforward to make use of exterior software for Energy BI Desktop named Energy BI Exporter. The Energy BI Exporter is a free group software accessible for obtain right here. With Exterior Instruments Normal Availability, you possibly can anticipate to see an increasing number of Exterior Instruments constructed by our superb group members. I personally surprised to see many superb concepts flip into helpful instruments. Study extra about Energy BI bulletins about Exterior Instruments GA right here. I’m humbled to be named within the announcement although. So thanks to Microsoft for that.

Let me begin with a bit of background. Up to now few years, I wrote a sequence of weblog posts about exporting information from Energy BI Desktop and Energy BI Service. These posts are fairly in style. They’re within the prime 10 most visited posts on my web site, contributing to about 15% of my web site guests. Listed here are the earlier posts I wrote on this particular subject:

Aside from my web site statistics exhibiting many individuals need to export information from Energy BI Desktop, a few of my prospects requested the identical query. They needed to export the curated information from their information mannequin inside Energy BI Desktop to CSV format and make the curated information accessible for his or her different platforms. Whereas all of the strategies talked about in my earlier weblog posts are working, some customers nonetheless discover them complicated. So I assumed, we are able to make it higher. We will make a simple software that exports the information with solely two clicks. So we began constructing the Energy BI Exporter as a micro-project. We added some extra concepts to the unique concept of solely exporting the information. We thought it’s good to export the information together with the desk names, column names and relationships. Having that data useful, we are able to rapidly construct the identical information mannequin because the one we exported its information however utilizing the CSV recordsdata as the information sources. The opposite concept was to pack all the pieces in a ZIP file on the fly, so we have now a single ZIP file, together with the tables, columns, and relationships. Consequently, the primary model of the Energy BI Exporter is born. On this publish I clarify the way it works.

Downloading and Putting in Energy BI Exported

You possibly can obtain Energy BI Exporter from its official webpage from Information Vizioner web site. You require to enter your e-mail handle then click on the Obtain button as proven within the following picture:

Relying in your browser, the obtain course of could also be barely completely different, nevertheless it downloads the power-bi-exporter.msi file.

You possibly can set up the file by double clicking it and following the directions throughout the installer.

Utilizing Energy BI Exporter

As talked about earlier, the concept of making the Energy BI Exporter was to have a devoted software that exports information from Energy BI Desktop within the easiest potential manner. After you efficiently put in the Energy BI Exporter, observe these steps:

1. Click on the Exterior Instruments tab after opening the Energy BI Desktop (both the Retailer model or the common downloaded model)
2. Click on the Energy BI Exporter

3. Navigate to the specified location to retailer the ZIP file
4. Enter the File identify
5. Click on the Save button

6. The Exporter begins exporting the information in a ZIP file within the location we chosen earlier. After the export course of is Completed, you possibly can shut the Energy BI Exporter window

All executed!

Testing the Outcomes

Now you can navigate to the placement and open the ZIP file. The ZIP file should comprise all information, tables, columns and relationships. The next picture reveals the outcomes of exporting the information from my Energy BI information mannequin:

As you see within the above picture, the Energy BI Exporter efficiently exported 24 information tables plus three schema recordsdata together with Tables, Columns and Relationships. Let’s take a look at my information mannequin and see if all tables are exported. The next picture reveals my information mannequin:

Because the previous picture illustrates, my mannequin is a Composite Mannequin containing tables with completely different Storage Modes together with:

• Import Information
• DirectQuery
• Twin

The mannequin even have some hidden tables and calculated tables. As you see, the Energy BI Exporter efficiently exported all tables.

Let’s open the Tables.csv file and see if the file contains all these tables. The next picture reveals the contents of my Tables.csv file:

I go away it to you test the remainder of recordsdata exported.

Getting the Updates

Each time we launch a brand new model of the Energy BI Exporter, you may be notified by way of the software while you begin utilizing it. A notification message notifies you {that a} new model is on the market to obtain. You possibly can merely click on the notification to obtain the brand new model.

Concerns

Each piece of software program has some limitations, and Energy BI Exporter shouldn’t be an exception. Please maintain the next factors in thoughts earlier than utilizing the Energy BI Exporter:

• Energy BI Exporter is not going to work if you’re linked to an occasion of Evaluation Companies (SSAS) or a Energy BI Dataset in Join Stay mode. If you’re not too positive what Join Stay means, I encourage you to take a look at this text
• If there’s an error in your DAX expressions creating calculated columns or calculated tables, Energy BI Exporter will increase an error message when it makes an attempt to export the information from the problematic desk
• DAX errors in measures is not going to have an effect on Energy BI Exporter
• Energy BI Exporter exports the information of all tables throughout the information mannequin. If the desk has not been loaded into the information mannequin, Energy BI Exporter can not entry it
• Energy BI Exporter exports the tables accessible within the information mannequin no matter their underlying information supply. In case your mannequin accommodates tables in DirectQuery mode linked to giant tables, then Energy BI Exporter nonetheless works. But it surely tries to export the entire information from the information supply which can take a very long time if the underlying information supply accommodates giant quantities of information

Conclusion

Energy BI Exporter is a software designed and carried out with simplicity in thoughts. Exporting information from Energy BI Desktop has by no means been as simple as it’s with Energy BI Exporter. Energy BI Exporter is a free software, however that doesn’t imply we is not going to help it or replace it. So, as at all times, be at liberty to share your ideas and tell us what options you prefer to us so as to add to the software. Hopefully, you discover the software useful.