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Formatting SSAS values (Live connection/explore live)
SSAS is a semantic layer in BI. This means it stores metadata natively with data. Part of this metadata is display formatting. Power View (the report component in Power BI) is designed, for better or worse, to defer to the display format metadata of its source. You should alter these display formats in your SSAS model.
Some visuals appear to have limited formatting. Eg, if you click the format painter on a bar chart and expand the options for the X-Axis you will have the ability to control Display Units (Auto/None/Thousands/Millions etc) as well as the Decimal places.
But if you have a grid of data and want to have full control over each column that doesn't appear to be available yet. You can always submit an idea (I will vote for you).
For now, the live connection to the MDX cube doesn't seem to always use the format_string values from the cube which is a shame.
Same problem here!
I tried to play around with SSAS format masks but they are not interpreted on Power BI Desktop when using live connections.
The only change I have seen is by converting to data to use Currency data type, the format is changes with thousands separators and 2 decimal places.
Has an issue been registered so far so that I can vote for it too?
I'm having this issue as well.
Formatted measures as \€ #,##0.00;\€ -#,##0.00 in the SSAS MD cube.In Excel, everything is fine. In PBI Desktop, the € is missing.
Has there been any updates on this? I good portion of the data I work with is using cubes in SSAS and the formatting is a big issue.
