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Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

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Miguel Escobar on 01 Jun 2023 17:44:52

Enable to modify the mashup document of a Dataflow Gen2 by passing a variable from a pipeline before an execution of the Dataflow

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This is currently in planning. Be sure to check out the release plan for timelines around this feature once they become available:

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Scott Powell on 06 Dec 2023 16:38:02

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

I'm trying to move large tables from on-prem SQL server to Fabric. Until the data gateways or mirroring improvements go live, splitting the work into many dataflows each touching a different "slice" of data and appending into a Lakehouse is the only viable solution. But this is currently extremely painful, because:You can't simple "save as" a dataflow as a copy. Which means you have to set up many copies of the same dataflow manually, manually map them to the destination tables, etc.You can't change the parameters in the dataflows via a pipeline, which means you can't have a single job that you can reuse for multiple slices in parallelI also agree with the comments about allowing the data sources and data destinations to be controllable via parameters. In my case, if I'm running 10 copies of a dataflow each dealing with a slice of data, I might want to spread them across different gateway clusters so I don't bog any of them down.Thanks,Scott

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Adlane Kadri on 16 Nov 2023 16:29:07

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

Looking forward to this feature

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on 03 Nov 2023 08:41:17

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

Looking forward to this feature

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Wan Redzuan on 31 Oct 2023 02:09:17

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

Would like this feature to be available soon as need to have the flexibility to run Data Flow from Pipeline with parameters

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Peter Blake on 30 Oct 2023 19:25:26

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

Definitely require this feature to make DFG2's effective for ETLing a large number of rows from an app via of REST calls that require an advancing row offset - i.e. many calls of the same DFG2 in which only the offset changes.

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Suketu Dudhat on 14 Sep 2023 03:45:32

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

This would be a great feature to have to increase the value of switching our workflows to Dataflow Gen 2 from TE3 and XMLA!

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Jay Volk on 19 Jun 2023 18:44:58

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

Ability to make a data source use a parameter - it is possible in Powerbi data load but not in data factory. This would enable promotion of data sources from Dev to production without altering code.

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Marcus Wegener on 05 Jun 2023 06:16:11

RE: Enable to pass variables from pipelines as parameters into a Dataflow Gen2

That would be great, because then I could use the pipelines to control and execute dataflows and, for example, execute the same dataflow on different sources.