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Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

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Sasa Juratovic on 10 Jun 2015 22:29:58

Are there any plans for Power BI Designer "better together" with PowerShell? I would be able to "Get Data -> PowerShell" where I would point designer to a PS script. Designer would execute PS script and resulting tables (one or more) would be loaded into data model.

I understand I can do it today via CSV files but that requires some additional steps (and creation of CSV files) compared to what I have in mind.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:37

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Please start this work asap.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:11

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Why leave out powershell? It's a great too.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:07

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

I need this very badly. This is currently the best way for me to collect GitHub data that isn't supported via the GitHub connector.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:00

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Great Idea

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:56

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Great idea

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:52

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

I strongly believe that this is a great idea. THANKS

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Chrissy LeMaire on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:46

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

When you begin to move forward with PowerShell support, please consider the community feedback on the Trello board at:

https://sqlps.io/powerbi

Rob Sewell and others have proposed some PowerShell commands and ordered them for convenience and ease of understanding. A similar board has been working well for the primary SqlServer module.

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tom on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:27

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Oh please yes... Anything to help the automation process...

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Raf Delgado on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:15

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Run PowerShell queries to return objects which can be imported into Power BI. Really useful for gathering admin information and presenting in a visual format.

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Jose Antonio Silva on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:14

RE: Power BI Designer and PowerShell better together

Did you try this: https://github.com/DevScope/powerbi-powershell-modules?