Shortcut Transformations - Customize ingestion with user configurations — Microsoft Fabric Roadmap

Description

With the upcoming enhancements to Shortcut Transformations, you'll be able to fully customize how you bring in data from CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Excel files. You can define exactly which rows to skip, set file encoding, and choose custom quote or escape characters for your data. You'll also be able to remove duplicate rows based on key fields, specify date and timestamp formats, and decide how errors are handled--whether to skip problematic rows, insert nulls, or enforce strict schema rules. For Parquet and JSON files, you'll have options to partition or cluster your data and even flatten arrays if needed. When working with Excel, you can select which sheets to transform, up to 15 at a time. All these controls will be available directly in the user interface, giving you more flexibility, reliability, and efficiency in managing your data ingestion and transformation workflows.

📰 Related Blog Article

Announcing Shortcut Transformations: from files to Delta tables. Always in sync, no pipelines required.

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Change History

2026-01-30

Release Date 2026-01-21 -> 2026-03-31
2025-12-11

Feature Description **Shortcut Transformations - User configurations to customize ingestion behavior**With the upcoming enhancements to Shortcut Transformations you'll be able to fully customize how you bring in data from CSV Parquet JSON and Excel files. You can define exactly which rows to skip set file encoding and choose custom quote or escape characters for your data. You'll be able to remove duplicate rows based on key fields specify date and timestamp formats and decide how errors are handled whether to skip problematic rows insert nulls or enforce strict schema rules. For Parquet and JSON files you'll have options to partition or cluster your data and even flatten arrays if needed. When working with Excel you can select which sheets to transform up to 15 at a time. All these controls will be available directly in the user interface giving you more flexibility reliability and efficiency in managing your data ingestion and transformation workflows. -> With the upcoming enhancements to Shortcut Transformations you'll be able to fully customize how you bring in data from CSV Parquet JSON and Excel files. You can define exactly which rows to skip set file encoding and choose custom quote or escape characters for your data. You'll also be able to remove duplicate rows based on key fields specify date and timestamp formats and decide how errors are handled--whether to skip problematic rows insert nulls or enforce strict schema rules. For Parquet and JSON files you'll have options to partition or cluster your data and even flatten arrays if needed. When working with Excel you can select which sheets to transform up to 15 at a time. All these controls will be available directly in the user interface giving you more flexibility reliability and efficiency in managing your data ingestion and transformation workflows.
2025-11-18

Roadmap Item Added