Add possibility to Document current model instead of new one

[TomTimmerhout]

Hello Marc,

As discussed on your awesome website, please add the possibility to document the current open Power BI file instead of creating a new one.

[marclelijveld]

@TomTimmerhout, thanks for listing this issue.

Adding context from comments on blogpost

The generic idea is to put the documentation in the pbix from the data model. At this moment in time, this scenario is not possible because there is no way to script visuals etc. Also, the backend from the model documenter relies on a local export of the vpax file which is extracted at tool execution and not included in the data model itself. Using XMLA we could potentially add the tables to the current data model pbix, but it is not possible to add the data itself.

Also, refreshing of the data in the current setup is not supported in the Power BI Service due to the local vpax, which brings another challenge. I’ll keep this in mind, maybe things change in the future and it might be possible at some point.

[chrisweis]

"there is no way to script visuals"

Maybe partnership/integration with PBI-Tools could allow this to work (although unsupported by Microsoft)?