Can anyone tell me why Q&A setup option is disable in my power bi report which is live connected to a semantic model

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Hi Ketan Bharat | MAQ Software,

Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A forum.

The reason the Q&A setup option is disabled in your Power BI report is due to the live connection to a semantic model (such as an Analysis Services model or a shared Power BI dataset). Here’s why:

Power BI’s Q&A feature requires an imported data model because it depends on having the data locally within Power BI to process natural language questions effectively. In a live connection setup, data remains in its source location and is queried in real-time, which limits Power BI’s control over the data model. Without direct access to the data structure, Q&A functionality cannot be enabled, as Power BI cannot perform the necessary analyses on the data.

If enabling Q&A is essential for your report, an option would be to switch from a live connection to an imported data model. This would allow Power BI to handle and interpret the data, making Q&A available.

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