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.
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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.
We have an embedded Power BI solution (embed for customers/app owns data)
Is it possible using any Power BI APIs to, given an embedded report with a visual, to determine the sort settings for the visual.
For example, the user creates a table with one column, 'column1', say. They sort column1 descending.
We would like to, using JavaScript, analyse the visual and know that column1 is sorted in descending order.
I don't think this is currently available in the API but wanted to see if I had missed something. (I know about visual.orderBy() to SET the sort settings, we need to GET the sort settings)
Is this possible?
Thanks
You can not determine the sort settings applied to the visual, that feature is not available currently.
For Example:
a. Before applying the sorting:
console.log(visual);
b. After applying the sorting:
await visual.sortBy(sortByRequest);
console.log(visual);
Output Before :
Output After :
Please find the reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/sort-visuals-by
I am new to Power BI and with the limited time given, I am stuck at how to come up with:
Below Table B-Row1 ("1/20" and "M"-Monday cell) - how to
specifically place the date measures in their specific cell and put
it in one column?
How can I merge the cells under the Total column?
How to add all the numbers from the Type1 and Type2 columns and place it in the merged cell in #2?
Any clues/direction/links on how to achieve the Target Table B below will be much appreciated.
PS. Below Table A. Current is just using Matrix Visualization in Power BI.
You can't exactly do what you are after. PowerBI allows you to rapidly put amazing visuals together however that comes at the price of lack of (easy) flexibility. You could build your own custom visual or look in App Source for a visual that does this, or build the Visual in some other tool (via custom code).
However, I'd recommend sticking with the PowerBI matrix, which will give you a cascading drill down and work out how best to align your data to it and other out of the box visuals. Once you start to delve in to convoluted work-arounds to give users data in exactly the format they request you start to burn a lot of time. Look for alternatives to tell the data's story and work with your end-user to buy in to it.
Just wanna share that I have resolved my problem not using one type of visualization, but through using 3 different visualizations in Power BI. I used:
1 Table visual for Date column
1 Table visual for Total column
1 Matrix visual for the Code+Type mapping and counts
I also used DAX function to get the Date format and another DAX function used for both Total and Code+Type counts(to filter data according to the specified date).
Thanks for the response, #Murray and #RADO.
I am trying to add a check box to each row inside a power bi table.
Post clicking I would want to lock/highlight the row.
I know this is pretty simple to create on a web page.
Could anyone please suggest any ways of achieving this in power bi.
This sort of functionality is not available in Power BI. You can add highlighting to the row using conditional formatting and/or add a KPI icon