Is there an easier way in Power BI to repoint the visuals to a new table which initially pointed to another table?
Scenario :
I have a Power BI report which is sourcing data from an Azure Analysis Service. The AAS model has multiple tables out of which 2 had issues and had to be re written with a new logic. Now the main task is to repoint the visuals in PBI to fetch fields from newly added tables.
The one way I know in this scenario is a manual effort where you replace/switch fields in visuals from old to new table.
Is there any better/easier/efficient way to achieve this?
TIA
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Typically no unfortunately (although you could possibly fake it using dataset partitions, dataflows or programmatically adding records to what's called a "push datasets" - and one of these would be easy nor stable). Power BI assumes that all data will be purged on a full refresh.
I have a SSAS tabular model I have deployed and made some power Bi reports. now I need to add some new columns and measures to SSAS and also add them to power BI. How I can do that?
As Power BI connects to SSAS Tabular in Live Connection Mode, once you update the Data Model and deploy it, open Power BI Desktop and it should see the changes made on that connected SSAS Data Model. You can then update and publish your Power BI reports to the service so the new metadata takes affect.
Anything that you remove that from the Data Model, may introduce broken visuals and errors, however adding anything new that isn't yet used will not affect the visuals or reports.
I am new to Power BI and trying to build a report for one of our business requirements. I have access to a Power BI dataset which I imported in the Power BI desktop version. I also need to import an excel file placed in SharePoint/OneDrive and merge the data in these two sources. When I am trying to do this, I am getting the below error.
Is this feature not available in Power BI?
If not, is there a way to achieve this objective?
You are connected to a Tabular SSAS cube or Power BI Service dataset, you can't add other data sources.
You can only mix data source types in the modes direct query and import. See the limitations section of the MS docs
One option would be to recreate the Tabular data model in Power BI, over the base table/views it is based on in direct query mode, then add the SharePoint list, or add it as a table in the Tabular/Power BI Service Dataset
I'm new to Data visualization and currently I'm migrating couple of dashboards from tableau to powerBi.
Both tableau and powerBi imports data from sql server.
Which is the best way to create an efficient data model in powerBi while taking into consideration of views from tableau?
The best way to create a data model in Power BI is to create a Star Schema. If you are not familiar with a Star Schema do some research on the web. It will be something that it is well worth your while to learn.
You may end up having to use Power Query to deal with tables from both sources that hold similar data.
I have a collection of .pbix models that follow a similar structure, ie, have the same tables and relationships.
It is too complex to combine them all into a single .pbix.
Is there a way to upload all these tables into a single repository, like PBI Service dataflows or a data warehouse, or something similar.
And then get the data back to PBI Desktop and perform DAX calculations, visualizations and report.
Any suggestions/ ideas?
Thank you so much for helping!
You can publish them to Power BI Service, and then create separate reports, but using these published datasets as a data source.
See Connect to datasets in the Power BI service from Power BI Desktop.
After publishing your "model" reports to Power BI Online, start making a new blank report, but instead of getting the data from files/databases/etc., choose Power BI service as a data source and select the previously published dataset. After that, you can publish your report the same way, but in this case you can share one dataset (your model) between multiple reports.