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adamorsteve
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9 years ago
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Primavera data source

Has anyone had experience setting up Primavera (p6) as a data source? I presume this is done by adding the relevant Oracle/SQL database as a data source?   Not tried it myself yet but exploring hav...
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    v-caliao-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi adamorsteve,

     

    There is no built-in connector for Primavera in Power BI Desktop. An idea about this issue has been submitted in this link , please vote it up.

     

    Additionally, to work around this issue, you can use Power Query to connect to Primavera xer files  and create charts in PowerPivot following the guide in this blog, then pin these charts to Power BI dashboard following the instructions in this article.

     

    Regards,

    Charlie Liao

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v-caliao-msft
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9 years ago

Hi adamorsteve,

 

There is no built-in connector for Primavera in Power BI Desktop. An idea about this issue has been submitted in this link , please vote it up.

 

Additionally, to work around this issue, you can use Power Query to connect to Primavera xer files  and create charts in PowerPivot following the guide in this blog, then pin these charts to Power BI dashboard following the instructions in this article.

 

Regards,

Charlie Liao