Introducing Action BI Toolkit, a powerful collection of free utilities including a convenient, easy to use external tool and a powerful command line utility that bring source control for both your reports and your model, finally(!), to Power BI Desktop.

1) ActionBI-tools – a thorough how-to action packed demo featuring a new free community External Tool that allows you to check in your changes to your Power BI report (pbix file) as you work in Power BI Desktop, without having to break your workflow. Work seamlessly tracking changes with both your model and report in the same file. Or, just check-in your report if you are working on a ‘thin report’ that’s connected to your analysis services instance, a local Power BI file or Power BI Premium.

Together with VS Code or your source control tool of choice, learn to easily browse previous version of your M-code or DAX measures. Want to push it a little further, use ActionBI-tools to track your model and report dependencies, export snapshots of data.

2) Pbi-tools – see how to use a powerful command line utility for enterprise-grade multi-developer DevOps scenario using only Power BI Desktop. Merge changes in your pbix file, and programmatically generate a new pbix as your changes work through your DevOps pipeline. Generate deployable pbix files directly from source control without having to hold on to large binary files in your source control.