Power BI Report and Semantic Model Naming - Snack 11

While thinking about what would be next for this series, I went to access the report we have been working on and found the proper topic before even opening the report.

If you have been following along and using the same sample dataset, you might have noticed a small inconsistency in naming between the Report and the Semantic Model.  This is captured in the screen shot above.  

Yours may or may not have this issue.  If it doesn't, aren't you lucky!?

I am not entirely certain what happened here, and it is mostly irrelevant.  

Usually, whenever you create/publish to the Power BI service, the name used for the report will be exactly the same as the Semantic Model.  For whatever reason, it did not this time.

This kind of bothers me.  I prefer that both names match so that they remained paired up and intend to rename both of them to "Financial Sample."

This can be done within the service and not impact anything.  They will remain connected.

How do we do that?

Access "My workspace," and ...

For the Report,

1. Hover over the row with the report name
1. A ". . ." menu appears next to the report name.
2. Click the " . . . " menu
3. Choose settings
1. Here you can choose to
1. Name / Rename the Report
2. Give the Report a Description
3. Add Contact Information
4. Choose an Endorsement for the report
5. Multiple other useful settings
4. Rename the Report
5. Save

And for the Semantic Model,

1. Hover over the name of the Semantic Model
1. A ". . ." menu appears next to the report name.
2. Click the " . . . " menu
3. Choose "Rename"
4. Rename your Dataset name aka Semantic Model.
5. Save

That is really all there is to it.  To me, everything looks much cleaner now and my mind immediately recognizes that these two are connected.  I do not have to waste any though on that.  Hopefully, it helps you too.