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jasonbub_work
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10 years ago
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can't upload dataset

Hi,   I have a number of users that are having trouble loading data and having it appear in the Datasets.  They click the + symbol next to Datasets and select the file (they have tried both .xlsx a...
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    jasonbub_work
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    We were able to figure out the issue.  There wasn't really an issue in the first place, just that PowerBI doesn't inform the user enough that is wasn't able to find data.

     

    Solution: The user wasn't defining the data as a Table within Excel.  So, PowerBI must not have been able to locate any data to import.  Once we selected the data and choose Define as Table, Saved It and Uploaded it to the Data Set in PowerBI the data appeared right away.

     

    Jason