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    What's new in Tabular Editor 3?

    • 2021-06-01
    • Daniel Otykier

    (The following section assumes that you are somewhat familiar with the open-source Tabular Editor 2).

    Tabular Editor 3 adds the following features that are not available in the open-source version:

    • UI overhaul
      • Visual Studio-like, fully customizable shell
      • Theming support (dark mode!)
      • Hi-DPI and multi-monitor support
    • New, super-powerful DAX Editor
      • Powered by Scintilla (SciTe, Notepad++, etc.)
      • Many Code Assist features (aka. "IntelliSense")
      • Offline syntax and semantic checking and highlighting
      • Roadmap: Configurable hotkeys and color schemes
      • DAX debugging
    • Full offline metadata analysis with syntax and semantic checking
      • Metadata automatically inferred for calculated objects, without being connected to AS
      • Messages view that displays all DAX errors/warnings and allows you to quickly navigate to the code that has issues
    • Find/replace dialog box
      • Allows you to display all find results in a window to quickly navigate between objects
      • Supports RegEx, backslash expressions and Dynamic LINQ searches
    • Diagram view
      • Easily navigate large models, including only tables that are related to the table you're looking at
      • Easily add/edit relationships
      • Save/load diagrams to files
      • Roadmap: Save/load diagrams to model annotations
    • DAX Scripting
      • Edit multiple measures in a single script
      • Supports editing various measure properties (DisplayFolder, Description, IsHidden, KPIs, etc.) in addition to the DAX expression itself
      • Support for calculated tables and calculated columns
      • Support for calculation groups/items
    • Macro recorder (C# aka. "Advanced Scripting")
      • Scripts can be saved as reusable macros (aka. "custom actions") that are fully customizable with the rest of the UI shell
    • New connected features:
      • Workspace Mode (simultaneously synchronize model metadata to disk AND to analysis services)
      • Table Preview (infinite scrolling on tables in import mode, filtering/sorting supported in both import and DirectQuery mode)
      • DAX Query Editor
      • Pivot Grid view (drag and drop columns/measures from TOM explorer)
      • Async Data Refresh
      • VertiPaq Analyzer (also allows you to import an existing vpax file when working offline)
    • Power Query support
      • Load column metadata from tables that use Power Query partitions
      • Roadmap: Power Query editor with IntelliSenseTM-like features

    In addition to the features listed above, Tabular Editor 3 will have full feature parity with Tabular Editor 2.

    Next steps

    • Compare editions
    • Overview of Tabular Editor 3's User Interface
    • Security overview
    • Controlling preferences
    • Tabular Editor 3 Onboarding Guide
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