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Pulling XMLA-Modified Power BI Datasets into Source Control

Marc Lelijveld has a fix:

Have you ever found yourself stuck with a modified Power BI dataset, thanks to those well-intentioned but troublesome changes you made through the XMLA endpoint? Does that sound familiar to you? What seemed like a convenient solution quickly turned into a frustrating challenge when you encountered the error message in the Power BI Service.

You wanted to seamlessly continue your development journey in Power BI Desktop, avoiding the need for a full data refresh or just quickly making that one small change, but now hitting a roadblock when trying to download PBIX file. The error message declared that your data model had been modified with the XMLA endpoint. But now, with Git integration you can overcome this challenge!

Read on to see how.