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ThomasDay
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10 years ago

Data Hierarchy Use

Hello all,   I cannot for the life of me figure out why I'd use a data hierarchy.  Anyone want to volunteer a use case where it helped them out?   I have a lot of nice hierarchies--and I'd love t...
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Greg_Deckler
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10 years ago

There is a very good discussion around data hierarchies here:

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Creating-Hierarchies-in-Power-BI-Desktop-Data-Model/td-p/1444

 

Bottom line is that it is currently a report authoring aid so that you do not have to recreate the hierarchy for each visual. This follows the MVP model that the Power BI team uses. Read the last post, they have more plans around data hierarchies in future releases but right now it is probably best summed up as a report authoring convenience.

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ThomasDay
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10 years ago

Whew, I'm not going crazy!  Thanks, Tom