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captainlaw
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Edit Data within PBI Desktop?

Hello PBI Folks, I'm wondering if desktop allows me to edit individual cells of a dataset that was loaded from Excel?  If desktop does not support editing of one cell, I'll simply edit from the sour...
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captainlaw
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

I don't think security would be an issue to edit data cause it's like you said transforming data.  Yes, I'm able to write M language to modify entire column of data, just wasn't sure if there's script to edit individual cell, so I assume not.  I'll go the route of modify excel and refresh.

 

Thanks.

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v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

captainlaw

 

To edit cell data in your dataset, the best practice is editing your source data and refresh data source. But you can also achieve it with Power Query or DAX formula. You need to select that specify column, then apply filter to find the row and replace the value in that cell. Please refer to a slimilar thread: Replacing just 1 value in a table.

 

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    captainlaw
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Thanks Simon.  Having bunch of IF clause or using selectcolumns function will be too clunky to maintenance over time.  Maybe in the future, PBI will allow cell data modification right within the UI, like Excel.  Just a thought.  Thanks.

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        captainlaw
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Just did... thanks.