PivotTables created with Power BI using Analyze In Excel should work after publishing to Power BI
Power BI's Analyze in Excel functionality allows Excel users on the desktop to create reports using PivotTables and cube formulas connected to a published Power BI dataset. However (and this is very hard to explain to customers) these reports only work on the desktop: even though Power BI allows you to publish Excel workbooks to an App Workspace, reports created using Analyze In Excel do not work after they have been published to Power BI because Excel Online does not support connections to Power BI. Please fix this!
Chris Webb
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Anonymous
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It is a must-have. Customers are very surprised that this does not work ... Please make this for PBI u. SSAS data models possible, please.
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Stelvio Gori
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Wondering whether the Excel team reads this at all...
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Geoff Fawcett
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Yep. Google has this now. Wondering when the Excel team will decide this is a priority. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/connecting-bigquery-and-google-sheets-to-help-with-hefty-data-analysis
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Anonymous
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This reflects very poorly on the Excel team that this isn't completed yet. This is such a critical feature for Excel, which is much better suited at tabular and multidimensional reports than Power BI.
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Anonymous
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PLEEAASE make it possible!!
Also by making Power BI Reports based on SSAS Tabular with live connection --> After Publishing in PBI Service it should work. -
Anonymous
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Yes... please please please fix/enable this. This just makes sense to complete the Excel analytics story.
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Donald Parish
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And could make work for Azure Analysis Services connections as well.
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Paul O'Sullivan
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This feature would make a massive difference to Excel enabling huge efficiencies for large organisations with multiple spreadsheets needed regular updates. Please Microsoft at least update us as to your plans around this feature.
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Stelvio Gori
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The Power BI team is doing a great job listening to users requests, answering, and incorporating them in the development roadmap, why does this does not happen with other MS teams?
This is a killer feature, up to the Excel team according to the PBI team, it's unbelievable we don't get any answer! -
Anonymous
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Can someone from Microsoft please provide an update on this? Is this being considered/planned? Thanks in advance!
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Anonymous
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Excel online Forms cannot automatically calculate the form after writing data, only manual recalculation can be performed. This BUG only happened this month, which was not found before.
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Michelle Schnabel
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There is a related idea on the Power BI side that doesn't have very many votes. Find it here:
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Anonymous
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Our company has an open ticket with MS support on this.
We have our PBI reports linked to SSAS tabular and in this scenario there could be the possibility, according to MS support, to make the "Analyze in Excel" file work by granting HTTP Access to Analysis Services on IIS 8.0
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/instances/configure-http-access-to-analysis-services-on-iis-8-0?view=sql-server-2017)Has anyone tried this solution?
We are configuring the server following the instructions in the link above; I'll let you know if it works.. -
Tim Rodman
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Good point :)
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Rob Collie commented
Well Tim they ARE slower than pivots, and in large volumes yes you will notice a problem.
Still though, in most cases you should be ok. (Also, once we get this enabled, we can THEN complain about any perf problems, so let's keep the upvotes and enthusiasm coming!)
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Tim Rodman
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Rob, I love cube formulas too, but I was nervous about using them in large volumes after talking with Per Solli about it. Sounds like maybe you've used them heavily against cloud models without experiencing too much pain?