Item management overview

What is a Fabric item?

An item is a set of capabilities within an experience (e.g., Data Engineering, Data Science). Users can create, edit, and delete them. Each item type provides different capabilities. For example, the Data Engineering experience includes the lakehouse, notebook, and Spark job definition items.

Fabric item CRUD APIs

You can use Fabric item CRUD APIs to manage your Fabric.

  • Create item: create item with empty definition or create an item with definition.

  • Get item: get properties of the item.

  • Delete item: delete an item.

  • Update item: update properties of the item.

  • List items: retrieve a list of the items in the workspace.

  • Get item definition: get the definition of the item, which can be used for item creation and updating definition later on.

  • Update item definition: update the item definition (for example change visual name in a report).

For different item types, different APIs are supported. Checkout the section below more information.

Note

The following item types are not supported for any API:

  1. Scorecard
  2. Dataflow
  3. Dataflow Gen 2
  4. Real-Time Dashboard

Item types API support

Create item without definition, Delete, Get and Update Item supported types

Item type Create (without definition) Get Update Delete List
Dashboard
DataPipeline
Datamart
Eventhouse
Eventstream
KQLDatabase
KQLQueryset
Lakehouse
MLExperiment
MLModel
MirroredWarehouse
Notebook
PaginatedReport
Report
SemanticModel
SparkJobDefinition
SQLEndpoint
Warehouse

Create item with definition, Get item definition and update item definition supported types

See Item definitions overview