Power BI Helper 12.3

Power BI Helper by RADACAD is a free companion tool for Microsoft Power BI that helps authors, analysts, and administrators document, explore, and govern Power BI models and reports. It reads PBIX/PBIT files and can connect to your Power BI Service tenant to extract metadata, visualize model structure, and trace dependencies across tables, columns, measures, queries, relationships, and report visuals. You can quickly search your model, see where fields and measures are used, review DAX and Power Query (M) code, identify unused fields, and export documentation for audits, handovers, or compliance.

Key capabilities:

• Model documentation: Generate detailed, shareable documentation for tables, columns, measures, hierarchies, relationships, and scripts (DAX and M).
• Usage and dependency analysis: Find where a field or measure is used across pages and visuals; view measure and column dependency trees.
• Model cleanup insights: Highlight columns and measures not used in visuals to help simplify and optimize your model.
• Service inventory and lineage: Catalog workspaces, datasets, reports, dataflows, and gateways, and visualize lineage to support impact analysis and governance.
• Power BI Desktop integration: Available as an External Tool for a seamless workflow alongside your report development.

Benefits:

• Faster impact analysis and troubleshooting
• Clear, consistent documentation
• Leaner, easier-to-maintain models
• Better visibility for governance and change management

Note: Power BI Helper is a read-focused tool; actions that modify models should be performed in Power BI Desktop. Access to tenant metadata respects your existing Power BI permissions and policies.

Power BI Helper is developed by RADACAD. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 8.3, 8.4, 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3. The name of the program executable file is Power BI Helper Application.exe.