Making Use of the Tabular Editor CLI

Eugene Meidinger opens up the command line interface:

The Tabular Editor CLI (TE CLI) is a command-line interface that makes it possible to view, query, build, manage, and test semantic models programmatically. This is different from Tabular Editor 2 or 3, which have a graphical user interface (GUI) and buttons that you click to take actions and make changes. In the CLI, you type and submit te <command> like:

• te connect to connect to a model
• te ls to list its contents
• te vertipaq to run the VertiPaq Analyzer
• te add Sales/Revenue -t Measure -i "SUM('Sales'[Amount])" --save to add a measure

You can also execute these commands in a pre-written script. This typically happens in the terminal. A terminal can be a standalone application that you open (like the default Windows or Mac terminals) or embedded in an application like VS Code or Cursor where you can see files in an explorer:

Click through for more info on how it works. Tabular Editor CLI will be free for another two months (as of the time of this post), so it’s a good time to see if this makes sense for your use cases.