ALM Toolkit is one of the external tools used in Power BI. It is useful especially when publishing a large dataset to PBI Service. Since it only sends metadata, not the whole data, it is much faster than publishing a dataset.
Detailed Information
Please note that when you change the dataset with ALM Toolkit, the data file is not downloadable from the Service.
Steps
- If you don’t have the ALM toolkit yet, download it from here
- On the Power BI Desktop, go to External Tools > ALM Toolkit
- It will prompt you to enter the Target location. Under Target, in the "Workspace" box, enter "powerbi://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/(workspace name)". Enter the dataset name in the "Dataset" box.
- It will automatically start comparing the datasets. When there is a change, it will show as "Update", "Delete", or "Create" in the Action column.
- Click "Validate Selection"
- Click "Update" to upload the change on the dataset on PBI Service
- When it is done updating, the pop-up window will show "Success"
