Items - Create Semantic Model

Reference

Service:: SemanticModel

API Version:: v1

Creates a semantic model in the specified workspace.
This API supports long running operations (LRO).

This API requires a definition.

Permissions

The caller must have contributor or higher workspace role.

Required Delegated Scopes

SemanticModel.ReadWrite.All or Item.ReadWrite.All

Limitations

To create a semantic model, the user must have the appropriate license. For more information see: Microsoft Fabric license types.

Microsoft Entra supported identities

This API supports the Microsoft identities listed in this section.

Identity	Support
User	Yes
Service principal and Managed identities	Yes

Interface

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{workspaceId}/semanticModels

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
workspaceId	path	True	string uuid	The workspace ID.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
definition	True	SemanticModelDefinition	The semantic model public definition.
displayName	True	string	The semantic model display name. The display name must follow naming rules according to item type.
description		string	The semantic model description. Maximum length is 256 characters.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
201 Created	SemanticModel	Successfully created
202 Accepted		Request accepted, semantic model provisioning in progress. Headers Location: string x-ms-operation-id: string Retry-After: integer
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Common error codes: InvalidItemType - Item type is invalid. ItemDisplayNameAlreadyInUse - Item display name is already used. CorruptedPayload - The provided payload is corrupted.

Name

Type

Description

201 Created

SemanticModel

Successfully created

202 Accepted

Request accepted, semantic model provisioning in progress.

Headers

Location: string
x-ms-operation-id: string
Retry-After: integer

Other Status Codes

ErrorResponse

Common error codes:

InvalidItemType - Item type is invalid.
ItemDisplayNameAlreadyInUse - Item display name is already used.
CorruptedPayload - The provided payload is corrupted.

Examples

Create a semantic model example

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/cfafbeb1-8037-4d0c-896e-a46fb27ff229/semanticModels

{
  "displayName": "SemanticModel 1",
  "description": "A semantic model description.",
  "definition": {
    "parts": [
      {
        "path": "model.bim",
        "payload": "ew0KICAiY29tcGF0a..GVzIjogWyBdDQogIH0NCn0=",
        "payloadType": "InlineBase64"
      },
      {
        "path": "definition.pbism",
        "payload": "ewogICJ2ZXJzaW9uI..NldHRpbmdzIjoge30KfQ==",
        "payloadType": "InlineBase64"
      },
      {
        "path": ".platform",
        "payload": "ZG90UGxhdGZvcm1CYXNlNjRTdHJpbmc=",
        "payloadType": "InlineBase64"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Sample response

Status code:: 201

{
  "displayName": "SemanticModel 1",
  "description": "A semantic model description.",
  "type": "SemanticModel",
  "workspaceId": "cfafbeb1-8037-4d0c-896e-a46fb27ff229",
  "id": "5b218778-e7a5-4d73-8187-f10824047715"
}

Status code:: 202

Location: https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/operations/0acd697c-1550-43cd-b998-91bfbfbd47c6
x-ms-operation-id: 0acd697c-1550-43cd-b998-91bfbfbd47c6
Retry-After: 30

Definitions

Name	Description
CreateSemanticModelRequest	Create semantic model request payload.
ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details object.
ErrorResponse	The error response.
ErrorResponseDetails	The error response details.
ItemType	The type of the item. Additional item types may be added over time.
PayloadType	The type of the definition part payload. Additional payload types may be added over time.
SemanticModel	A semantic model object.
SemanticModelDefinition	Semantic model public definition object.
SemanticModelDefinitionPart	Semantic model definition part object.

CreateSemanticModelRequest

Object

Create semantic model request payload.

Name	Type	Description
definition	SemanticModelDefinition	The semantic model public definition.
description	string	The semantic model description. Maximum length is 256 characters.
displayName	string	The semantic model display name. The display name must follow naming rules according to item type.

ErrorRelatedResource

Object

The error related resource details object.

Name	Type	Description
resourceId	string	The resource ID that's involved in the error.
resourceType	string	The type of the resource that's involved in the error.

ErrorResponse

Object

The error response.

Name	Type	Description
errorCode	string	A specific identifier that provides information about an error condition, allowing for standardized communication between our service and its users.
message	string	A human readable representation of the error.
moreDetails	ErrorResponseDetails[]	List of additional error details.
relatedResource	ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details.
requestId	string	ID of the request associated with the error.

ErrorResponseDetails

Object

The error response details.

Name	Type	Description
errorCode	string	A specific identifier that provides information about an error condition, allowing for standardized communication between our service and its users.
message	string	A human readable representation of the error.
relatedResource	ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details.

ItemType

Enumeration

The type of the item. Additional item types may be added over time.

Value	Description
Dashboard	PowerBI dashboard.
DataPipeline	A data pipeline.
Datamart	PowerBI datamart.
Environment	An environment.
Eventhouse	An eventhouse.
Eventstream	An eventstream.
GraphQLApi	An API for GraphQL item.
KQLDashboard	A KQL dashboard.
KQLDatabase	A KQL database.
KQLQueryset	A KQL queryset.
Lakehouse	A lakehouse.
MLExperiment	A machine learning experiment.
MLModel	A machine learning model.
MirroredDatabase	A mirrored database.
MirroredWarehouse	A mirrored warehouse.
MountedDataFactory	A MountedDataFactory.
Notebook	A notebook.
PaginatedReport	PowerBI paginated report.
Reflex	A Reflex.
Report	PowerBI report.
SQLDatabase	A SQLDatabase.
SQLEndpoint	An SQL endpoint.
SemanticModel	PowerBI semantic model.
SparkJobDefinition	A spark job definition.
Warehouse	A warehouse.

PayloadType

Enumeration

The type of the definition part payload. Additional payload types may be added over time.

Value	Description
InlineBase64	Inline Base 64.

SemanticModel

Object

A semantic model object.

Name	Type	Description
description	string	The item description.
displayName	string	The item display name.
id	string	The item ID.
type	ItemType	The item type.
workspaceId	string	The workspace ID.

SemanticModelDefinition

Object

Semantic model public definition object.

Name	Type	Description
format	string	The format of the item definition.
parts	SemanticModelDefinitionPart[]	A list of definition parts.

SemanticModelDefinitionPart

Object

Semantic model definition part object.

Name	Type	Description
path	string	The semantic model part path.
payload	string	The semantic model part payload.
payloadType	PayloadType	The payload type.

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Items - Create Semantic Model

Permissions

Required Delegated Scopes

Limitations

Microsoft Entra supported identities

Interface

URI Parameters

Request Body

Responses

Examples

Create a semantic model example

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

CreateSemanticModelRequest

ErrorRelatedResource

ErrorResponse

ErrorResponseDetails

ItemType

PayloadType

SemanticModel

SemanticModelDefinition

SemanticModelDefinitionPart

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