Forum Discussion

piterab's avatar
piterab
Frequent Visitor
11 years ago

View Excel Reports

The GA Announcement says:

 

View Excel Reports in Power BI –You can now view those pixel perfect Excel Reports directly from Power BI, exactly as you would in Excel Online

 

Anyone know how to do this.  I know it can import Powerviews, but i'm looking for it to display Excel Reports.

4 Replies

  • andre's avatar
    andre
    Memorable Member
    11 years ago

    Technically, the service is supposed to render regular (non power view based) content in high fidelity, much like Excel Services work in Sharepoint.  So your pivot charts on regular Excel sheets and Power View sheets should render when you publish a workbook to the server.

     

    However, and I would love to be wrong on this, it doesn't seem to be working like this quite yet.  The closest I have gotten was to create a link to my report on Sharepoint online, but it's not really integrated with the service

      • piterab's avatar
        piterab
        Frequent Visitor
        11 years ago

        Thanks for the quick response Jen!

         

        It looks like all this does it create a link on the PowerBI site to a file in my OneDrive.  I don't like this for a few reasons.

         

        1) The file is in OneDrive.... onedrive goes away when the user leaves.  Can I suggest that it links over to the "PowerBI for Office365" area

         

        2) I can't auto update the data model to a file in onedrive.

         

        Is there a future plan to enhance this?