I have no luck finding answers online, so I resorted to posting the question here. I just want to know if there is a way to export an entire dataset to Excel from a .pbix report in Power BI Desktop? The .pbix report is a dashboard that contains multiple tabs.
I am doing the same report but through Excel. Another group is tasked to use Power BI to come up with the same report, but the results differ. I wanted to be able to extract the dataset from Power BI for me to run a comparison and know where the discrepancy lies. This other group cannot provide me the raw data for professional reasons.
For a report published to Power BI online, you can choose the Analyze in Excel option.
I'm not sure if that can be done directly from the desktop app without publishing or not.
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I have 20 users all having the power bi pro license.
There is a requirement to be able to have the report printing ability so that all the contents of the report (for example header, charts, table) visual can be printed. The table should show all data when printed and not the image with scroll bar.
One solution is to use paginated reports using the report builder tool. But this requires the premium capacity or PPU license. I was thinking about an alternative to this and think that maybe I can use an excel report, connect to the power bi dataset, and publish the excel report to the power bi workspace and app.
When such a report is printed then it will retain the header, charts, table with entire table data.
So I want to ask - What is the practical difference between paginated report and an excel report?
I'm working on a Power BI project that:
1/Takes data from Google Sheets
2/Makes some modifications with power Query (or any other program)
3/Create the rapport
4/send it to the client
what i want to do is to automate these 4 steps.
the data's structure is the same, the content and the title of the columns are different from google sheets to other (depend on the client).
I'm new with BI and pretty inexperienced with Power BI so apologies if there is a simple answer to this question or if i didn't explain it as well as possible.
I need your help please.
Unfortunately power bi has no built in connections for google sheets.
give this article a try How to connect google sheet with power bi?
If that doesn't work you can try getting connector or API etc... you Can also explore using VBA (selenium) or some form of web automation to get it done.
some other workaround you can try is using smart sheet or Microsoft Excel
I want to know if I can use Power BI to create reports in Excel? I want a well formatted report we present before clients.
Clients provide us data in SQL. I use statistical analysis tools. The analysed numbers are in SQL again. I have Power BI on my laptop. I want to know if I can build any process where I can create excel reports from the SQL server numbers?
I do use PBI for creating charts and graphs which I later manually paste in excel reports. But have no idea if complete report making is possible.
Can anyone elaborate??
Thanks!!
Power BI is (mostly) the combination of two Excel plugins, Power Query (Get data from Excel 2016 onwards) and Power Pivot. The visual/report layer is an advanced version of Power View in Excel.
You have two options. First you can use Excel to have the Power BI experience in getting and connecting the data together. For this method you will use the Power Query (M) and Power Pivot (DAX) parts, these are the same as getting data and using the relationship designer in Power BI. If you are currently copying and pasting visuals from Power BI into Excel, then this method would be the best way. You may want to create your visuals in Excel, and format them to a Power BI look and feel.
The second option is to create the dataset in Power BI, getting and transforming the data, then publishing it to the service. You can then use 'Analyze in Excel' to connect Excel to the dataset and surface the data in Excel.
I would recommend not copy and pasting visuals from Power BI to Excel as you lose the benefits of Power BI's interactivity, just use the normal charts, slicers and other tools in Excel. By using the first option, you are keeping the workflow in one application without any convoluted steps back and forth, and anything you learn and use in Power Query and Power Pivot you can use in Power BI.
I have set up two reports, source and target to test cross report drill through.
It works fine in the power bi service, but not when the report is being embedded (Apps own data).
Is this a limitation or am I missing anything?
Is there a workaround?
Not, it doesn't work. When you embed a report, you specify which report exactly to be embedded. The cross-report drill through will try to open another report (not the one, which is embedded), which isn't a problem in a browser or Power BI Desktop, but this will not work when embedding. You can try to combine both reports into one, on separate pages, as a workaround for this issue.
You can vote for this feature here - Enable cross-report drillthroughs for Power BI embedded.
A client of mine is asking me to export the data from a table or matrix visualization to an excel file for custom reports.
I checked out an excel plugin but couldnt make it work.
Can this be made? Is it one of the premium features only?
Yes it can be done. You can do it like this from Power Bi.
Another approach is if he has an account to power bi that has access to the report he can use an excel plugin to connect to the tabular model.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/publisher-for-excel