Hi,

It seems like the "Change Data Source" feature of Pivot Tables is disabled in Excel 2013 when they are built on the Data Model (PowerPivot).

To reproduce: just create a simple table in Excel, add it to the data model, build a pivot table on the data model, and try changing its data source: the option is disabled (greyed) in the ribbon.

Anybody has a tip on how to resolve that?

Dear colleagues,

I have been trying to upload a list of postal codes (with 5 digits, text format) from France and Spain and the powermaps just recognize 55% of them. Is it normal? Im not an expert on powermaps but i have used before (with less data) and it worked well.

Do you have any tip to solve this?

I have a slicer with week and year names. 

I have created a measure and a column to show a certain week's data. However, I need to show the week name as selected in the slicer. Is this possible to do in Power BI?

I have attached the <g class="gr_ gr_251 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" data-gr-id="251" id="251">dax</g> <g class="gr_ gr_258 gr-alert gr_tiny gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="258" id="258">i</g> used to create measure & column. Here If the slicer selection is 2019 - WK10 then the column/measure name should be 2019 - WK10 as well. Please let me know if this is possible or not in Power BI. If yes, how can I achieve this?

2019 - Wk11 =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( RevenueAndProfit[GrossProfit] ),
    ALLSELECTED ( DimCalendar[CalendarWeekCaption] )
)

Thank you,

Success

success@gritfeat.com

nmss18

Near the bottom of every DAX help topic page I've checked, we see a link to the sample data. Here, for example:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/all-function-dax

The link is to...

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=164474

...which redirects to...

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=powerpivotsampledata

...which returns a 404.

Can anyone direct me to a working page that allows us to download the sample data that the help topics use?

Founder, ExcelUser.com

Hi all,

I'm stuck on something that I assume should be easy.

I have a values for "demand"  for 26 forward months.

I'm trying to get demand that is forward for a group of months.  ie from 5 months forward to +10 after that.  So from +5 to +15 months

This is what I have but I get an error that says " A table of multiple values was supplies where a single value was expected"

any help would be great.

HighLimVol:=calculate([DEMAND],DATESINPERIOD('DATE'[DATE],DATEADD('DATE'[DATE],5,MONTH),10,MONTH))

Thanks

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Say for example I have a slicer name 'City', and their city names are 'Toronto', 'Ottawa' and 'Vancouver'.

Out of these cities, there's properties that are related to them, and these properties, some are December Year end, some are April Year end and some are August Year end.

I had a measure [Final Figures] that calculates correctly. I am now trying to create a simple [MTD Actual], [MTD Budget], [YTD Actual] and [YTD Budget] measures that uses [Final Figures].

For example [MTD Actual]:

IF(HASONEVALUE(tblCommunity[Year End]),
      SWITCH(VALUES(tblCommunity[Year End])
      ,
      "Apr", CALCULATE([Final Figures],
                         ActualBudget[Actual/Budget] = "Actual",
                         FILTER(ALL('Calendar DateTable'),
                                     'Calendar DateTable'[Month Index] = VALUE(MAX('Calendar DateTable'[Month Index])) - 4  &&  'Calendar DateTable'[Year] = MAX('Calendar DateTable'[Year])
                         )
                )
       ,
      "Dec", CALCULATE([Final Figures],
                         ActualBudget[Actual/Budget] = "Actual"
                 )
       )
)

The above [MTD Actual] formula works ONLY when the properties that are retrieved via 'City slicer' ONLY has 1 Year End value that is either December Year End, or April Year End. But when there's multiple Year End properties in the same city, my [MTD Actual] calculation becomes blank.

May I ask then, how can I 'sum' both of the Year End properties by 'checking' these properties are 'Apr Year End', and these properties are 'Dec Year End' and then sum them up when there's multiple Year End properties vs. only 1 Year End property.

Hello,

Given that I have the following Hierarchy. Header, SubHeader, SubHeader-Level1 and SubHeader-Level2.

And all these dimensions are in the 'Row Label' in the Pivot Table.

There are a total of 3 tables. tblHeader (where the Header is from with other dimensions), tblSubHeader (where SubHeader and SubHeader-Level1 are from with other dimension) and factTable (where the SubHeader-Level2 is from with other dimension)

There will always be values in Header, SubHeader and SubHeader-Level2 (this is the concatenate of GL ID and GL Description). But there's 'blanks' in SubHeader-Level1.

My ultimate goal is to create an income statement where the value of the Header will be BLANK follow by the child hierarchy will the calculated values.

My question is, is there a way to have the data that's in the SubHeader-Level2 to move to SubHeader-Level1?

For example, below is how it looks like (Note that '+' is the expand/collapse icon in the pivot table)

+Revenue                                              (Header)
   +Rental Revenue                                 (SubHeader)
      +Car Rental                                      (SubHeader-Level1)
          101-Economic Car                         (SubHeader-Level2)
          102-Medium Car                            (SubHeader-Level2)
      +Tool Rental                                      (SubHeader-Level1)
          103-Moving Trolly                          (SubHeader-Level2)
   +Parking Revenue                                (SubHeader)
      +BLANK                                           (SubHeader-Level1)
          104-Indoor Parking                         (SubHeader-Level2)
          105-Outdoor Parking                         (SubHeader-Level2)

But, I'd like to have it look like below

+Revenue                                              (Header)
   +Rental Revenue                                 (SubHeader)
      +Car Rental                                      (SubHeader-Level1)
          101-Economic Car                         (SubHeader-Level2)
          102-Medium Car                            (SubHeader-Level2)
      +Tool Rental                                      (SubHeader-Level1)
          103-Moving Trolly                          (SubHeader-Level2)
   +Parking Revenue                                (SubHeader)
          104-Indoor Parking                         (SubHeader-Level2)
          105-Outdoor Parking                         (SubHeader-Level2)     

I need to deploy PowerBI report server (Oct 2018) in a production environment using 2 servers, the first server is for power BI report server (Web server) and the second server will host Data warehouse and Analysis server (distributed deployment of PowerBI) after installation, I got the following error when opening a dashboard:

Error: We couldn’t connect to the Analysis Services server. The server forcibly closed the connection. To connect as the user viewing the report, your organization must have configured Kerberos constrained delegation.

I know that Power BI report server requires Active directory and a service account for authentication and some settings to SETSPN and delegation on <g class="gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="12" id="12">Active</g> directory but the IT department of organization doesn't let us join the servers to the domain or create a service account.

I also tried to create the same local account with the same password, but it didn't work.

Greetings. I realized today that a daily refresh has been failing more than succeeding w the generic message "Call to Excel Services returned an error."

I have read that the ULS logs are where I should go to get more detailed info, and that those should be in the "C:\Program files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14/5/6\LOGS" location. No recent files exist there, but I did spot a location for the Trace Log on the Diagnostic Logging tab in SP 2013 Central Admin (D:\Web\LogFiles\SharePoint_DiagLogs). In one of those files I find entries for my specific PP report, for the correct day and time, but no error messages. 

Also, my boss said that I use a utility in sharePoint powerShell using "Merge-SPLogFile", but that requires a correlation ID, and I don't see where I can get that?

Any ideas on where to go from here?



Thanks in advance! ChrisRDBA

Hello.  I have created a workbook where I have worksheets with named tables and I load the tables into the data model, which is used for pivots.  I created reports in BI from that workbook.  Now, I need to replace the YTD sales information because a new month has ended.  I'm not able to get the data replaced and I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong.  The information I have found online has either not worked or it's not for BI 2016 Desktop.  I'm using Office 2106 Professional Desktop.  I do not have a subscription to a BI service.  My client has created a 365 license for me.  We do not know how to use BI in 365 yet.  I am trying to get a basic understanding of how to use it on my desktop first.  However, I do save the workbook and the BI file on my NAS.

I may not be going about the data replacing correctly.  I go to Get Data-Excel.  I see the worksheets and table names.  One table name is DT_Items.  I check the box and choose edit.  At that point the data view shows my original DT_Items and another DT_Items2.  How do I replace the original?

From what I understand, in BI, users do not get an option to upload the data model.  To see what BI uploads from the data model, the user has to go to the data view?

Thanks in advance!

I have a Facts table and multiple single-column dimension tables connected to fact table by 1 to many relationship. i have created multiple slicers from the dimension tables to filter the data in the facts table. I have clicked Slicer settings to"Hide items with no data". I have created 2 pivots from the ThisWorkbookModel and added 2 measures to the pivots.

Count of Prev Char Value:= CALCULATE([Count of Char Value],SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(dDate[Date]))

Here Char Value is from the fData facts table that i want filtered, based on thedDate[Date] from the dDate dimension table for the same period last year. I cannot use the date column from thefacts table as the dates are not complete or in sequence.

%Change:= IF(IFERROR([Count of Char Value]/[Count of Prev Char Value]-1,BLANK()),IF(([Count of Char Value]/[Count of Prev Char Value]-1)=0,BLANK(),[Count of Char Value]/[Count of Prev Char Value]-1))

If i use just the [Count of Char Value] or [Count of Prev Char Value], the Slicers hide the items with no data.

But if i use [% Change] in one or both of the Pivots, the Slicers do not hide the items with no data.

I tried adding Year to one of the Pivots, for the SamePeriodLastYear function to work. Also, i suspect the[Count of Prev Value] and the [%Change] measure are also not working properly. Why is this happening and how can i resolve it?

Regards. ~~SiFaR~~

I'm working with Excel 2016 and PowerPivot tables. As source there are some SharePoint oData RESTs defined. On 32bit version it works, on 64bit it fails with a 401 Error.

What could the problem be?

EDIT1:
I found this, I think the problem is the same, but SharePoint 2016 does not have the Excel Services included anymore...

Hello,

Can anyone help me to fix below formula? My data set has duplicate value and i am not sure how to deal?

Check =

IF (

    LOOKUPVALUE (

        Sheet2[No],

        Sheet2[units], Sheet2[units] * -1,

        Sheet2[previous], Sheet2[previous] * -1,

        Sheet2[current], Sheet2[current] * -1

    )

        <> BLANK (),

    "A",

    "B"

)

A tabular model.
The table 'Historic Project One Hour Value' contains hours value (like price) for working hours on projects on several dates.
It is connected only to the project table but not to the date table .

I'm trying to calculate the hours value. For my question let's say there is only one hour on each project.
I get the correct answer for each project, but the total is a very big number, which I don't understand.

I will appreciate your help.

One Hour Value On Date:=

VAR OneHourValueOnStartDate =

FILTER (

'Historic Project One Hour Value',

'Historic Project One Hour Value'[HistoricOneHourValueBeginDate]

            = date(2016,12,31)   

)

VAR OneHourValueOnStartDateForOneProject =

1 *   /*Actually, I multiply the working hours of the project, but this number is correct */

CALCULATE (

SUM( 'Historic Project One Hour Value'[HistoricOneHourValue] ),

            OneHourValueOnStartDate

        )

RETURN

IF (

HASONEVALUE ( Projects[Project ID] ),

 CALCULATE ( OneHourValueOnStartDateForOneProject ),

CALCULATE (

 SUMX (

 VALUES ( Hours[HoursProjectID] ),

                OneHourValueOnStartDateForOneProject

            )

        )

    )

I am working on a project that uses PowerPivot in Excel with Access database as data source via OLEDB. As PowerPivot does not support relative path when defining data source, I am trying to write a small utility in C# that would update the data source based on deployment location. It appears that theMicrosoft.Office.Interop.Excel component provides API for that. However, I get an InteropServices.COMException when trying to set the property of OLEDBConnection.Connection. Here is the test code:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook myBook = null;
Excel.Application myApp = null;
string workbook = @"c:\temp\test.xlsx";
string constr = "OLEDB;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\\temp\\testdata.mdb;Persist Security Info=false\0";

myApp = new Excel.Application();
myApp.Visible = false;
myBook = myApp.Workbooks.Open(workbook);
object index = 1 as object;
Excel.OLEDBConnection dbConn = myBook.Connections.Item(index).OLEDBConnection;
object conn = new object();
conn = (object) constr;

// exception is thrown at this statement
dbConn.Connection = conn;

I also try VBA in Excel. It fails as well. Here is the VBA code in Excel:

Dim conStr As Variant
Dim curConStr As Variant

curConStr = ActiveWorkbook.Connections.Item(1).OLEDBConnection.Connection

conStr = "OLEDB;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\caps96\Systems\TranHist.mdb;Persist Security Info=false"

ActiveWorkbook.Connections.Item(1).OLEDBConnection.Connection = conStr

Based on the API documentation or the info from Object Browser, the Connection property of OLEDBConnection appears to be a read/write property. Am I missing something here? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,

I'm getting the error above when trying to open power pivot data model in a specific workbook. I've had a look online, and there is no suggested fix for this other than: "it's broken, start again". It's a big model that I spent a long time on, which has been working and I was simply accessing the Data Model to make some minor - but required - changes. I'm relatively new to Power Pivot and if this is a common error (which it seems to be from internet searches), and catastrophic in nature, then I feel that it should be plastered all over the product when you open it. Has anyone got any suggestions that might garner a fix and if not any suggestions for best practices to mitigate this type of error in the future? Is the bottom line that this model is screwed?

Thanks in advance,

Rico

Office 365, Excel 2016 MSO (16.0.9126.2259) 32-bit

   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.ExposureControl.GetIsForwardCompatibilityEnabled(DataModelingSandbox sandbox)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.BackEnd.ExposureControl.IsForwardCompatibilityEnabled(DataModelingSandbox sandbox)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Common.SandboxEditor.get_Show1200Features()
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Common.SandboxEditor.set_Sandbox(DataModelingSandbox value)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XLHost.Modeler.ClientWindow.RefreshClientWindow(String tableName)

Hello People!

My company acquired the license of power bi in this tenant of office 365, my doubt is how to access the data source of a virtual machine that is in another subscription in Azure?

Can you please help?

Leonardo Fogaça de Almeida