balajij8
Esteemed Contributor II

Hi brickuser,

You have hit a UI limitation with the Dashboard Relationships (Semantic Model) feature in Public Preview. Once you click Get started with Relationships, Databricks automatically initializes a semantic model from your existing datasets. While the documentation confirms this initialization step, UI mechanism to un initialize or delete the model is not available. This structural change alters the dashboard's internal state forcing entity-qualified mode across the board and breaking the standard field dropdown in the visual editor for single-dataset widgets.


You can revert it to the normal visual editor behavior in an export-edit-import workflow. Because the dashboard's .lvdash.json file captures the underlying definition including the semantic model - you can strip out the relationship payload directly from the raw JSON structure. You can follow below
  • Navigate to the dashboard in Draft mode, open the kebab menu (⋮), go to File actions, and select Export.
  • Open the .lvdash.json file in a editor and search for the section defining the relationships. Locate the relationshipGraphs JSON structure and delete that block completely.
  • Save the file, navigate back to the workspace Dashboard listing and select Import dashboard from file to restore a clean dashboard without the semantic model layer.