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    Ron Pooters on 20 Dec 2014 03:25:40

    The PowerBI Designer is missing integration with the Data Catalog and there is no online search functionality. The data catalog is a core component of the reporting solution so let me use it with the Power BI Designer

    Administrator on 20 Aug 2020 01:24:05

    Checking w/ the team where this is at.

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    e4b486b9 dbc4-4cca-85bc-2e844be71c0c on 16 Aug 2020 02:23:49

    RE: Data Catalog integration in PowerBI Designer

    Connect Power BI designer to the Data Catalog. I would like to Get Data from data sources in the catalog

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    7d37cdbf c2f7-4abb-9836-e1ca03c4c83f on 16 Aug 2020 02:23:49

    RE: Data Catalog integration in PowerBI Designer

    It has to. The data catalog is the glue hat can bind an *enterprise* BI strategy together. What's the point if your flagship BI tool doesn't know what it is? It's demoralising to see something like this scratching around on 40 something votes whilst the ability to write custom DAX is polling 250 (which is more than the total number of people worldwide that have bothered to learn DAX).

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    7d37cdbf c2f7-4abb-9836-e1ca03c4c83f on 16 Aug 2020 02:17:08

    RE: Data Catalog integration in PowerBI Designer

    It has to. The data catalog is the glue hat can bind an *enterprise* BI strategy together. What's the point if your flagship BI tool doesn't know what it is? It's demoralising to see something like this scratching around on 40 something votes whilst the ability to write custom DAX is polling 250 (which is more than the total number of people worldwide that have bothered to learn DAX).

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    e4b486b9 dbc4-4cca-85bc-2e844be71c0c on 16 Aug 2020 02:17:08

    RE: Data Catalog integration in PowerBI Designer

    Connect Power BI designer to the Data Catalog. I would like to Get Data from data sources in the catalog

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    70d46314 bf32-46f8-b87f-0459bc85410d on 16 Aug 2020 02:17:08

    RE: Data Catalog integration in PowerBI Designer

    Since you are integrating Power Query in the PowerBI Designer, all features from the Excel version, including the Data Catalog, should be ported over. Unless of course the intention is to have PowerView parity between Excel and the Designer and you are planning on keeping the PowerQuery advanced features exclusive to Excel in order to differentiate the products; what should not happen though is that Excel gets fewer features than PowerBI Designer. A clear statement on what the future of Excel PowerQuery / PowerView is vis a vis the PowerBI Designer would probably help a lot in clearing up the confusion around these two tools.