Fabric Copilot generates descriptions for Power BI data models
Microsoft's Fabric Copilot now creates automatic descriptions for data models, known technically as semantic models. These pull details from the model's metadata and structure, appearing on the model details page in Fabric workspaces. The preview feature lets users edit or regenerate the descriptions. It aims to help teams find and understand models shared across Power BI and Fabric. Accuracy depends on the model's quality, so reviews are needed.
Data models in Power BI reports often arrived without notes, especially from departed colleagues. Excel users faced diagrams of tangled tables and measures with no clues, leading to hours guessing connections and DAX logic. Copilot changes this by scanning the model to produce plain summaries, visible instantly in Fabric. For the first time, beginners get a readable overview without rebuilding everything, spotlighting fixes like poor relationships before visuals fail.
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Forget perfect docs; this preview Copilot readout is your shortcut to decoding inherited model nightmares that kill your dashboards. Publish your messiest Power BI file to a Fabric workspace right now, read the auto-description, and fix the first flagged issue like a duplicate table – your boss sees a working report by Friday.
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