Usefulness of tabular editor?

Question

I see many people using the tabular editor (open source) tabulareditor.com

On their website it says that "provides an intuitive hierarchical view of every object in your Tabular Model metadata. Columns, Measures and Hierarchies are arranged in Display Folders by default."

I am using Visual Studio and I already see a very nice tree-like structure in the 'Tabular Model Explorer'. So, what's the point of this open source tool 'tabular editor', why so many people use it? and what are their benefits?

Answer 1

Hi,

Visual Studio Analysis Project, is much more convenient and has a lot of features that Tabular editor doesn't have. Those wizards in Visual Studio can do a lot of work automatically that would save your time. And the visual designer is much easier to use.
From normal use, visual studio is a great tool that can meet most of your development requirement.

But still we can use tabular editor, which is more light-weighted and give you more freedom to manipulate the objects in the model. It is a quite a small tool and let you to connect to your server and create/manage objects directly.
We can't tell how many developers are using it, but it is worth using in some special scenes.

Interestingly I lately saw a task which Visual Studio can not finish but Tabular editor can work on it. If you are interested you could see here I posted.

Regards,
Lukas

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