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# Create a planning sheet
This article describes how to get started with your first planning sheet inside planning in Fabric.
### Prerequisites
Before you set up planning sheets, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
* The overall [prerequisites for planning in Fabric](/get-started/prerequisites-for-fabric-planning.md), including the required tenant and capacity settings.
* Data in a [Power BI semantic model](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-warehouse/semantic-models), and a [connection to your semantic model](/get-started/create-and-share-a-cloud-connection-for-a-semantic-model.md).
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### Note
Planning in Fabric IQ is now available to organizations worldwide as part of the Microsoft Fabric SKU. New billing meters have also been introduced and are now available for billing.
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### Create plan item
1. From your Fabric workspace, select **New item** > **Plan**.
2. On **New Plan**, enter a name for your plan, and then select **Create**.
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### Note
When you create a plan item, you also automatically create a Fabric SQL database in your workspace. This database stores your plan report's metadata.
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### Create your planning sheet
1. In your new plan item, you see options to get your data from the semantic model or from Excel, and to create a planning sheet from it. Alternatively, start with a planning sheet and then connect it to data.
2. Select **Planning**, enter a name for the new planning sheet, and then select **Create**.
### Add the semantic model connection
In this section, you add the semantic model connection that you created earlier (see the [Prerequisites](#prerequisites) section). The result of this step is that your planning sheet has access to data in the semantic model.
1. In your new planning sheet, select **Add**.
2. Under **Select a Connection**, connect to your semantic model connection.
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Only connections with the **Power BI Semantic Model** connection type that the current user has access to appear in this dropdown.
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3. Select the semantic model, and then select **Add**.
4. Add semantic model data into your fields. Now you have your first planning sheet.
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Each Plan item is associated with a single semantic model. To connect to a different semantic model, [create a new Plan item](#create-plan-item).
You can create multiple Plan items within the same billing session. All items you create use the same active billing session, regardless of the number of items or use cases. For more information, see [Billing and usage for Fabric Planning](/resources/billing-in-fabric-plan.md).
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### Optional: Connect to a database for collaboration
If you want to collaborate with others on this planning sheet, create a database connection for your plan item to store comments and other collaboration details. For more information, see [Create a database connection for collaboration](/get-started/create-a-database-connection-for-collaboration.md).
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