TabularEditor/TabularEditor 2.7.1

Tabular Editor v. 2.7.1

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Note: This version of Tabular Editor requires the TOM AMO libs v. 15.0.2. They are included in the installer above, but can also be downloaded here (choose the "AMO" download option).

Lots of minor bugfixes and improvements in this release.

UI improvements:

• Navigate back and forth between visited objects in the Explorer Tree using the arrow buttons on the toolbar or [Alt]+[Left Arrow] (to go back) and [Alt]+[Right Arrow] (to go forward).
• Place the cursor on a measure, column or table reference in a DAX expression, and press F12 to go to that object.
• You can now mark a table as a Date Table - similar to Power BI / SSDT through the context menu. Tables that are marked as Date Tables will be indicated visually in the explorer tree.
• A column that is marked as "IsKey = true" will have its name shown in bold in the explorer tree.
• The filter textbox has been moved to the same toolbar as the Perspective / Translation selector. In addition, you can now use Dynamic LINQ to filter the Explorer Tree, similar to how Best Practice Rules work.
• A new context menu option has been added to tables, "Filter related", which will filter the explorer tree (using the new Dynamic LINQ filter option), to only show tables that are related to the currently selected table. Useful for navigating the relationships between tables in large models.
• Hitting the [Alt] key will now show shortcuts for navigating the menus.
• And a few more minor tweaks here and there...

Command line improvements:

• When Best Practice Rules are analyzed using the -A switch together with the -V switch (to enable VSTS logging commands), rule severity levels will now be treated as: 1 - Informational, 2 - Warning, 3 - Error.
• You can now load a model from a server in addition to loading it from file: tabulareditor.exe servername databasename or tabulareditor.exe "connectionstring" databasename

Other improvements:

• Renaming a Power Query data source will now do a search-and-replace in all M expressions in the model, to reflect the changed name of the source.
• Adding the following annotation at the Model level, will now let Tabular Editor serialize sensitive data (such as credential passwords) to files. Key = "TabularEditor_SaveSensitive", Value = "1". This may be useful for some workflows, where the credentials would otherwise be lost when deploying.

Bugfixes

• Installer will no longer check for available AMO libs, but will instead include the latest AMO lib from NuGet (15.0.2) at the time of this writing. Issue #131
• The annoying "Deploying..." spinner will no longer be on top of other applications.
• When switching between different expression properties on an object, changes to an expression are now correctly persisted.
• The CustomActions() script method no longer causes a crash when called with two arguments.
• Copy-pasting a table into a model no longer causes 1's to be suffixed to measure names (unless an existing measure with that name exists elsewhere in the model).
• Fixed issue #141 which would cause a crash when doubleclicking a table in a CL1200 model.
• And more...