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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.
I am seeing for some Visuals they ignore the formatting specified by SSAS MDX. Things like providing 2 decimal points which don't show up in any other client tools.
My experience is that the visualizations Table and Matrix actively uses "Standard" format string on measures that, in the source, are configured without format string. My expectation was "No specific format" (like Excel's "General"). To accomplish the thousand separator and skip decimal places, I set FORMAT_STRING = "#,##0"
Also, even though on live connection, I see that vizualizations like KPI provides the option to specify "Value decimal places" (Format > Indicator).
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks for the info!
^Bump ... Any resolution for this?
