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chriswragge
Helper I
Helper I

Excel query PowerBI data model

‎04-30-2018 04:19 PM

Hi there,

 

While PowerBI is great, many of our end users are old school Excel lovers and want to weekly delivery of a dashboard in their inbox. What I am currently doing is:

  1. exporting a odc from web service
  2. creating a tabular pivot off that
  3. copying the pivot data and saving it as a csv
  4. importing that csv into another workbook via power query which contains my Excel dashboard


All of these steps seem super redundant and I am curious if there is a 'cleaner' way. Ideally I would like a prebuilt Excel dash that link with / replicate my powerbi data model. Is this possible?

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PaulDBrown
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‎04-30-2018 05:44 PM

@chriswragge

 

I’m not sure if this is what you are after, but you can use power bi datasets as a source for excel:

 

Connect to dataset from Excel





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PaulDBrown
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‎04-30-2018 05:44 PM

@chriswragge

 

I’m not sure if this is what you are after, but you can use power bi datasets as a source for excel:

 

Connect to dataset from Excel





Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!
In doing so, you are also helping me. Thank you!

Proud to be a Super User!
Paul on Linkedin.






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chriswragge
Helper I
Helper I
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‎05-01-2018 11:51 AM

This was exactly what I was after. Thanks so much Paul!!

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