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ascott's avatar
ascott
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10 years ago

Hiding Tables in Desktop

We are looking into hiding tables in Desktop. I have already created the reports and dashboards for our clients but I want to hide the tables now. I am finding that I can only hide tables that are li...
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v-caliao-msft
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10 years ago

Hi Ascott,

 

According to your description, you are trying to hide tables in your Power BI desktop, the issue is that the table disappears for a moment and then comes right back, rigth?

 

I am tring to reproduce this issue without success. After hidden the table, I close the Power BI desktop and reopen it, the tables are still hidden. So in your scenario, please provide us more information, if possbile provide us some screenshot about it, so that we can reproduce this issue and make further analysis.

 

Regards,

Sean's avatar
Sean
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10 years ago

ascott

Has anyone been able to really hide a table? In either PBI or PowerPivot?

 

Hide in Report View is the only option I see in PBI. In PowerPivot Hide from Client Tools.

 

In both cases the table only gets dim. Saving the file, closing and opening again - still dim - but clearly visible in Relationship View

 

Also still visible and accessible in Report View.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    9 years ago

    I´d love to see an answer to this one please?

     

    At the moment I´m working on a project with 2 x 20 text files (don´t ask!) that I then combine into 2 tables with "Append Query". In Power Query I can at least group the two groups of text files, but I´d love to make them invisible other than there, as they are just clutter e.g. in the relationship view.

    • MFelix's avatar
      MFelix
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      9 years ago

      Hi Anonymous,

       

      Instead of making two different queries have you tried to have one single querie compose by differente sources and then combining them in the append?

       

      In the advance view you can add source and keep them as queries and the final result is just one.

       

      See the example below:

       

      let
    Source_1 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUUpUitWJVjICspLALGMgKxnMMgGyUsAsUyArVSk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    Format_1 = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source_1,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    Source_2 = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlPSUUpMVIrViVYyBzKTksBMCyAzORnMtAQyU1LATEMDIDs1VSk2FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    
    Format_2 = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source_2,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    Append = Table.Combine({Format_1, Format_2})
in
    Append

      As you can see in my end result I only have one table and the two inputs are "hidden" in the code so the end user only can see the final result.

       

       

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        9 years ago

        I appreciate the answer, I really do, but this is pushing the boundaries of my understanding of M. I´m only playing around with CSV files but it looks to me like the example is dealing with binary files.

         

        I might give something like this a whirl one day, but the better strategy I think is to avoid having to work with dumps of text files and go directly to the source db.

         

        Thanks - Ragnar