Another month – another Tabular Editor 3 release, this time the May 2023 version (3.7.0).
We hope you like this release.
Bug reports and feature requests coming from all of you really help, so we wanted to extend a thank you for these.
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New features
Introducing the new Metadata Translations Editor
New in this release is the Metadata Translation Editor, which enables you to easily handle all aspects of localization in a single tool window.
To use it, add one or more translations to your model;
You can then highlight the desired translations (Ctrl+click/Shift+click for more than one) and open the Metadata Translation Editor through the right-click context menu. The changes are immediately available on the translated objects:
The metadata translations editor allows you to view multiple languages side-by-side. Use the buttons on the toolbar if you want to toggle specific object properties (Names, Descriptions, Display Folders).
Adding support for Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL)
As mentioned in last months release blog, TMDL is a new format for serilization of a data model, that resembles YAML.
You can read all about it in the official Microsoft documentation or see the big announcement of TMDL from SQLBits earlier this year by Mathias Thierbach & Gabi Münster (watch it here).
The TMDL preview was recently updated with a lot of fixes to known issues in the first preview, and we are therefore happy to announce that Tabular Editor 3 from this version and onwards has support for saving to and loading your models from TMDL:
Bug fixes
We have made multiple bug fixes and minor improvements in 3.7.0; please see our release notes for full details.
If you have any feedback or experience any bugs please reach out in our community forum. We look forward to hearing from you
After saving a model to a folder with serialization mode TMDL, I get an error when opening the model.
The error is:
“Could not deploy workspace database
M Engine error: ‘Microsoft.Data.Mashup; The given data source location must have an address.
Parameter name: json’.
Do you want to open the file without a workspace database?”
Is this a known issue or should I create a new GitHub issue (with more testing and details)?
Hi Steini,
Please keep in mind that TMDL is still in preview. I believe Microsoft is aware of the specific issue you mentioned, although you can try to post a ticket on their GitHub here: https://github.com/microsoft/Analysis-Services