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Analyze in Excel: aggregation of numeric fields
Just to add another couple of postives to Matt's response, by using a measure rather than a 'naked' column its much easier to modify multiple pivots or visualisations in one go i.e. switch from count to distinct count. Also using measures allows you to modify the behavior depending on context, I quite often need to show a sum for individual rows but then an average for the total row.
The problem with this method is that it strips out a large part of the user interface -- implicit measures are baked into Excel and Power BI. Requiring these explicit measures to do anything with the data is a noticeable inconvenience and makes for very confusing and limited reports. If you hide the data columns in Power BI, then you no longer have access to the features related to implicit measures. If you keep the columns, you confuse Excel users. Is it possible for support of implicit measures to be added to "Analyze in Excel"?
I just discovered this limitation and my excitement for Analyze in Excel went woosh!
I think we would have to make the measure in Power BI Desktop, but i have uploaded most of my reports from Excel data sources and to have to re-do them in Desktop would be a nightmare. Hoping there is a way to do this using something in Power BI Service and or Excel?
indeed,
it is NOGO for me as well
