PowerBI Reverse engineering

@Egbejiogu,

Yes, Monkey Tools does require that you connect Excel with the Monkey Tools add-in to the Power BI data model, so I guess that’s a nonstarter for you.

Without an external tool, the best I can think to do is to screenshot the summary Manage Relationships screen, and then the individual screens for each relationship to document cardinality, directionality and active/inactive, per the screenshots below.

A similar screenshot could be taken of the data model view to show the table/field structures.

The most difficult one would be extracting measures from the PBIX file. I can’t think of way to do that other than manual cut-and-paste to an external file, without using a separate tool.

Perhaps someone else on the forum has an idea on how to do that in an automated way natively within Power BI.

I hope this is at least somewhat helpful. Power BI has really limited documentation capabilities built in, which is why so many external tools exist to fill this gap.

  • Brian
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