I am trying to find an answer if it possible to automate creating powerBI reports for each unique value in one of columns(It's like filtering on whole report for one of the values and publish report than change value to next one and repeat steps for other values)? Is there any fast way to do it? I wrote program to filtering via link and clicking mouse than save links for each person to excel but i wonder if there is more reliable and faster way to do it. I am using PowerBI premium for user.
This is typically called "Report Bursting", or "Data Driven Subscriptions", and here's a walkthrough of how to do it with Power Automate and Power BI.
Why don't you leverage RLS instead of hardcoding filters?
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I have a question about the function "Analyse in Excel" or "Analyse in Excel" in German when a PBI (Power BI) report has been published.
I read in a flat table in PBI and create some measures in PBI. Basically, it's about account numbers and the limits. A calculation is not necessary or possible here.
If I now want to analyse the data in Excel Pivot Table, I can only display the measures as values. An analysis of account numbers and limits is not possible, as limits are not measures.
What do I have to do to be able to select original data as values?
Thank you very much for your feedback and best regards
Andi
Try adding a measure from the table you are wanting to analyze and then double clicking on the measure value. This will pop open a new sheet and drillthrough to the rows detail behind that cell. It may give you the detail you are wanting. I also believe it will give you proper data types on columns so you can do Excel analysis.
Sorry! I do not get it.
To make it clear - I stripped down a very easy example of my problem:
I'm loading a flat file with account, currency, date and balance information.
The respective Power BI looks like:
After publishing the report into the cloud I would analyse the data within Excel
However, when I try to bring the "balance" information as value in, I'm receiving the following message:
The balance is not a measure in Power BI. Any idea what I can do?
Thank you and best regards
Andi
I am trying to siff through a large PBI report and for that I want to be able to determine the active measures and tables in the data model. In others words, I wanna be able to see what's being used from what's unused or obsolete in the model.
Is there, by any chance, a shortcut for that?
Thanks in advance
I think what you are after is RADACAD's amazing PowerBI Helper Utility.
This utility, once installed, is integrated in to the PowerBI external tools ribbon.
See the section at the link above around removing unused fields and measures.
Remove Not-used fields If there is a field not used in any visual, filter, or other calculations, then this is a safe field to be
removed. Power BI Help can identify these fields even if they are DAX
calculated columns or measures. Using the dependency tree of the
measure, it will identify if the field is used in another calculation
that is used in a visual or filter.
On powerBI, we can easily filter data with joined table for example, but I would like to get the query behind the result, it's possible to extract the query DAX from exemple from a visual ?
Best Regards
Yes you can, first go on View->Performance analyzer
Then click start recording and refresh visuals:
And there you have the Copy query button which contains the underlying DAX query.
I have a PowerBI that pulls from an excel spreadsheet a current inventory of statuses of a system, lets make it easy and say I have a single measure that reads "40% complete".
If I refresh the PowerBI dataset and it now says "60%", is there any way to have a KPI automatically show +20%? Every example I've found requires you to have another dataset that keeps the historical data, and that's not really an option in this situation. Is there any way to calculate it or store it within the PowerBI query itself?
Power BI is not designed to store historical data. This is what a database is for.
In order to calculate that 20% difference, you need to store historical data somewhere but Power BI's purpose is to connect to sources and load data and then visualize it, not to act as a data repository.
Test driving MS Power BI Designer. In the Tabular visualization I can't find way to maintain data source order. I have a specific order I want a text field to be in. It is sorted that way in query but report only allows asc/desc order. Don't want to put 01,02,03 in text field. Also don't want to include "order" field in the visualization. (That would work if I could "hide" field though). Any ideas?
This is a capability that is on the roadmap. If you use Excel, you can see the 'sort by' option in Power Pivot. The same capability will come to Power BI Designer, but it's not there yet.
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There's a way to do this in Power BI Desktop. Check this video at about 10:50.
https://youtu.be/d2bZpNZ6uIA?t=10m50s
You'll need to create another column of number values to tell it what order to sort the text values in. You can do that with "Enter Data" if it doesn't already exist.