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stan_w_gifford
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4 years ago
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FIlter data on retrieve

Good morning from an extremely wet Sydney Australia.

 

I am developing a report where I would like to retrieve data from Dynamics (Dataverse) based on a smaller table from dataverse.

 

I have a table that has a number of GUID entries which point to Sales orders in CRM. The Guids in the smaller table will have duplicates.

 

I would only like to retrieve from Dataverse those orders that match the GUID's in the smaller table.

 

The goal is to refresh the data much quicker - I would only need to retrieve about 1% of the order data - the order table is huge.

 

Is there any way to construct the retrieve that anyone can advise on?

 

Stan

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Hi stan_w_gifford ,

     

    I think Dataverse supports SQL query. You can add filter by SQL query like select ... from... in Advanced in Power Query Editor.

    Here are some similar threads for your reference:

    Pre-Filtering Data before Importing

    Filetring my table before importing in PowerBi

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • stan_w_gifford's avatar
    stan_w_gifford
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    4 years ago

    I did find out a partial solution using TDS.

     

    For example if I just want salesorders which were created after 2021-01-01, I found that using the current version of PBI Desktop, the sequence is......

    1. CLick Dataverse

    2. Select environment

    3. Select Salesorder - Then hit transform data

    4. Then select Advanced editor

    Replace EVERYTHING that is presented with something like

     

     

    let Source = CommonDataService.Database("yourenvironment.crm6.dynamics.com"),
    DataverseSQL=Value.NativeQuery(Source,"Select * from salesorder where createdon > '2021-01-01'",null,[EnableFolding=true])
    in
    DataverseSQL

     

    STan

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      3 years ago

      Hi Stan,

       

      Did you mange to make this work?

       

      when I'm working with dataverse my pipeline is usually Datavers -> PowerBI Dataflow -> PowerBI

       

      Because i noticed that the basice "cleaning" like column selection, and let's say a status filtering, are faster in the dataflow (furthermore, like this we are not querying the dataverse with 100 reports 😄 )

       

      I'm also facing your same issue, that it would be good to have some more effective folding method, and not so headscratching as using the XMLfetch tool to pre-filter the dataverse query.

       

      Unfortunately what you wrote here above, is not working for me (tested on the standard account entity/table)

       ðŸ˜•

       

      Regards,

      Oliver

      • stan_w_gifford's avatar
        stan_w_gifford
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        3 years ago

        Hi,

        I didn't go much further on this - I found that using TDS was sufficient for my purposes.

         

        PowerBI Data Flow is a new one on me - sounds like some research may be warranted.

         

        All the best

         

        Stan