Welcome
Thank you for choosing Tabular Editor 3!
To help you get the most out of the tool, we have collected all of our onboarding material in this getting started section. We recommend all new users of Tabular Editor 3 read through this guide, skipping any topics they are already familiar with.
Note
Some articles in this guide reference Tabular Editor 2, specifically the Command-Line Interface (CLI), for purposes of automated deployment and testing. A standalone CLI application to accompany Tabular Editor 3 is planned for release at a later time.
This training material focuses on the Tabular Editor product, so we assume you already have a basic understanding of tabular data modeling (using either Power BI Desktop, Visual Studio, or Tabular Editor 2.x). If you are new to tabular data modeling, we recommend the training material and courses offered by third parties such as sqlbi.com.
Topics covered in this guide:
Getting Started with Tabular Editor 3
- General introduction and architecture
- Installation and Activation
- Advanced installation and activation
- Migrating from Visual Studio
- Migrating from Power BI Desktop
- Migrating from Tabular Editor 2.x
- Purchase via Azure Marketplace
- Compare editions
- Tabular Editor Learn
Tabular Editor 2
Power BI Desktop & Tabular Editor
User Interface
- Basic user interface
- Best Practice Analyzer view
- Data Refresh view
- Find/Replace
- Macros view
- Messages view
- Properties view
- TOM Explorer view
- Diagram View
Parallel development
- Enabling parallel development using Git and Save to Folder
- Optimizing development workflow using Workspace Mode
Build models faster with Tabular Editor
- Boosting productivity with Tabular Editor 3
- Importing tables and data modeling
- Refreshing, previewing and querying data
- Adding measures and other calculated objects
- Using the DAX Scripting feature
- Improve code quality with the Best Practice Analyzer
- Introduction to C# scripts and macros
- Personalizing and configuring Tabular Editor 3 to suit your needs
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