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3 years ago

Lookup from OLAP Query to File on Hard Drive

I am looking for a way to create a lookup from an OLAP Query live connection to a lookup file on my hard drive, also connected to the PowerBI Report. The OLAP Query holds all of our company's sales/reporting data. We have items rolled up into Product Category, Product Family, Brand, etc. However, I have a separate lookup file that rolls up these SKUs into separate categories: Scorecard Categories. This uses the following concatenate: [Product Category]-[Product Family]-[Brand] to assign a new Scorecard Category and Subcategory. I am unsure how to create this lookup as I want it to link to a live OLAP Query. 

 

Does anyone have some suggestions as to how this can be accomplished?

 

Thank you!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    I am looking for a way to create a lookup from an OLAP Query live connection to a lookup file on my hard drive, also connected to the PowerBI Report. The OLAP Query holds all of our company's sales/reporting data. We have items rolled up into Product Category, Product Family, Brand, etc. However, I have a separate lookup file that rolls up these SKUs into separate categories: Scorecard Categories. This uses the following concatenate: [Product Category]-[Product Family]-[Brand] to assign a new Scorecard Category and Subcategory. I am unsure how to create this lookup as I want it to link to a live OLAP Query. 

     

    Does anyone have some suggestions as to how this can be accomplished?

     

    Thank you!

  • v-jingzhang's avatar
    v-jingzhang
    Community Support

    Hi Anonymous 

     

    If you connect to a model with Live connection, you cannot add other data sources to the same Power BI report. 

     

    In some scenarios, you can convert a Live connection to DirectQuery then add additional data sources to the report. However this is still a preview feature and has many limitations and considerations. You can refer to the following document to get more information. 

    Using DirectQuery for datasets and Analysis Services (preview) - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Jing
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