It would appear that the Metadata file contains all the names with regards to what you see when in the Report View.Īs you can see below from my Metadata file I have highlighted the Table names in Green below. The DiagramState file appears to store the information for the Table and Matrix locations, but not for the Matrix Preview from what I can gather. If you are interested there is a great book which goes into much more details around the Vertipaq engine, in which you can read a snippet in terms of how the Vertipaq engine works here: The VertiPaq Engine in DAXĪnd I would suggest getting a copy of the book if you are interested in the finer details.
The size of this file also is an indication of how much memory your Power BI Desktop file will consume.Īs with my example the file size is 486KB, which once again shows how good the Vertipaq Compression Engine is. This is where I think to myself a lot of the Power BI Magic happens because it is where the blazing fast query performance comes from. As you can see below it has some detail information and then the stored data. The DataModel file is the file that actually stores all of your data in a highly compressed format.Įssentially this is your Power BI In-Memory Analysis Services model. This will mean that they now have got all the Query Editor information in their It is important to note that you can actually copy the DataMashup file and send it to someone who is working with the same data, and get them to replace it with your copy. With the same syntax from the Query Editor. Highlighted below it is where it has a step called “ Calculated Week of Month”Īnd here is the identical step in the Query Editor. Within each table it also contains all the stepsĪs you can see below here is a snippet from the DataMashup file and in the content.The DataMashup file contains all of your Query Editor information.įrom my understanding it contains all of the following. This XML file contains all the content within the PBIX file
The LignuisticSchema file appears to hold the contents for the Sheet names if you rename them from the default “ ”Īs you can see above I renamed a sheet to “ Item count on Slicer” and when I open the LignuisticSchema file I see the following below. This is a snippet of what the contents of the file looks like below, and as you can see it stores a lot of information that is not very friendly to read. Which is essentially the report sheets, as well as the placement of the visuals and all of their related properties. The Layout file contains all the information with regards to the Report Layout. The report folder contains the following 2 files below.
#What is power bi desktop zip file
Now if you double click the ZIP file you will see all the contents, which I will go through the known contents in this blog post. So now the file will have the ZIP extension
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