topic Re: OLAP Model - View Relationships in Developer

OLAP Model - View Relationships

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:30:03 GMT

Hey Power BI Community,

I have been wondering how my report readers can view the relationships of the tables I built in Power BI Desktop when they use Export Data -> "Analyze in Excel"? I understand that this downloads a file with an OLAP connection to the data model. The thing is I want my viewers to be able to understand the relationship between the various tables I published. When I go to PivotTable Analyze -> Calculations -> Relationships, "Relationships" is greyed and does not allow me to click on it. How do I view this relationship with an OLAP model connected to a Power BI Dataset?

Thanks,

Gui

Re: OLAP Model - View Relationships

lbendlin — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:07:57 GMT

You can use tools like DAX Studio to run a query against the DMV. That will show you the relationship details.

I think it will be easier to just send a snapshot of the data model to your users (or include it as a page in your Power BI report)

Re: OLAP Model - View Relationships

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 03:05:30 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

As the document said, this file existed the connection which protects and provides by power bi with live mode.

Analyze in Excel
I don't think you can simply break protect and keeping the live connection to do some further analysis with the underlying data model and relationships.

For instead, I think you can consider getting data from Azure blob storage that power bi service used to storage the datasets.

Power BI Security#power-bi-architecture

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng