Best Practice Rules v. 0.5

This release consists of two files:

• BPARules-standard.json Official standard rules that should be applicable to all Tabular Modelling
• BPARules-contrib.json Rules contributed by the community, which may be applicable in specific scenarios only.

Close Tabular Editor. Place the file you need in your %appdata%\..\Local\TabularEditor folder, and rename it to BPARules.json. Then restart Tabular Editor.

Best Practice Rules v. 0.4

This release consists of two files:

• BPARules-standard.json Official standard rules that should be applicable to all Tabular Modelling
• BPARules-contrib.json Rules contributed by the community, which may be applicable in specific scenarios only

Close Tabular Editor. Place the file you need in your %appdata%\..\Local\TabularEditor folder, and rename it to BPARules.json. Then restart Tabular Editor.

Best Practice Rules v. 0.2

This release consists of two files:

• BPARules-standard.json Official standard rules that should be applicable in all Tabular Modelling scenarios.
• BPARules-contrib.json Rules contributed by the community, which may be applicable in specific scenarios only.

Standard Best Practice Analyzer Rules

This release contains the following rules by category:

• DAX Expressions (2 rules)
  • Avoid division (use DIVIDE function instead)
  • Revisit TODO expressions
• Metadata (2 rules)
  • Don't summarize numeric columns
  • Don't use floating point data types
• Model Layout (5 rules)
  • Add objects to perspectives
  • Hide Foreign Key columns
  • Organize columns and hierarchies in Display Folders
  • Organize measures in Display Folders
  • Translate Display Folders
• Performance (1 rule)
  • Remove unused columns

To install, copy the "BPARules.json" file into your %AppData%\..\Local\TabularEditor folder.