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Do you have a favorite TMDL hack? (not really "hack" since it's intended to be used, but... it feels like it!)

Question

TMDL is my favorite new feature so far this year - I'm curious what fun things everyone is doing with it. I've seen using it to copy date tables mentioned, I'm assuming partly because TMDL will take the field formatting settings etc when it's copied across models, where copying the Power Query code alone will not.

I really like the "use AI to add measure descriptions and comments", too, idea credit to Rui Romano (I did a walkthrough here: https://youtu.be/7vIwgSE8qmQ). I feel like if you had separate documentation on field descriptions from yesteryear, you could use AI to yank those right into the model vs having it make them up, but not tried that yet.

Anyone have any other fun tricks?

There's a few ideas here, too, if anyone wants to browse: https://fabsnippets.com/

Posted Apr 9, 2025, 8:22 PM UTC

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