Configure Retail industry data model (Preview)

Important

Some or all of this functionality is available as part of a preview release. The content and the functionality are subject to change.

After you successfully deployed Retail data solutions and few required entities from the Retail industry data model , you can use the various features available in the solution capability like adding more entities or deleting the capability etc. This article explains how to use these features.

Import data into Lakehouse

  1. Navigate to the Power BI URL of your organization and select the right workspace from Workspaces. In this page, you see the artifacts available in the workspace. Select the Retail data manager artifact.

    Screenshot shows the select workspace page.

  2. The Retail data solutions homepage opens. On this page, under Managed deployed capabilities, select the instance of Retail data solution installed.

    Screenshot shows the managed deployed capabilities.

  3. The Retail data industry model capabilities page opens. In the deployed artifacts section, you can see various artifacts deployed in the environment as part of the capability. Select the Lakehouse artifact to open the Lakehouse in the Fabric interface.

    Screenshot shows the select lakehouse page.

  4. Explore the entities created within the Lakehouse. You can now use data pipelines or import data from excel or csv file into the Lakehouse. For more details, see Import data into Lakehouse.

Add more entities

  1. Navigate to the Power BI URL of your organization and select the right workspace from Workspaces. In this page, you see the artifacts available in the workspace. Select the Retail data manager artifact.

    Screenshot shows the select workspace page in retail data manager.

  2. The Retail data solutions homepage opens. On this page, under Managed deployed capabilities, select the instance of Retail data solution installed.

    Screenshot shows the managed deployed capabilities.

  3. The Retail data industry model capabilities page opens. Select Settings displayed on the top right corner of the screen.

    Screenshot shows the select settings page.

  4. You're displayed a window on the right side of the screen. Select Add entities to add any new entities to the existing data model that is installed. Select Next.

    Screenshot shows the added entities page.

  5. The Select Entities page open, where all existing entities already deployed are preselected and you can add more entities from the industry data model provided. Select Next.

    Screenshot shows the list of added entities.

  6. The Selected Entities page opens. Review the changes and select Deploy. The system now deploys the newly selected entities in the environment.

    Screenshot shows the deploy entities page.

Delete capability

  1. Navigate to the Power BI URL of your organization and select the right workspace from Workspaces. In this page, you see the artifacts available in the workspace. Select the Retail data manager artifact.

  2. The Retail data solutions homepage opens. On this page, under Managed deployed capabilities, select the instance of Retail data solution installed.

  3. Select Delete capability displayed on the top right corner of the screen.

    Screenshot shows the deleted capability option.

  4. You're displayed a confirmation box to confirm if you really want to delete the solution. Select Delete capability.

    Screenshot shows the confirm delete capability option.

The entire capability including all the data for that capability is deleted from the system. After you delete a capability, you can't roll back to the previous state. Hence, in case you want to use the data or artifacts from an existing capability, you must take a backup from the workspace for those artifacts.