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Helper IVNew 'Enter Data' feature -- can we edit after creating table?
Hi,
I am loving this new 'Enter Data' feature! My question is, after I have created a table using the 'Enter Data' feature --- is it possible to Edit that table?
Created with 'Enter Data'. I need to edit but cannot find how
It does not seem like that is possible but I could be wrong. Anyone else used this feature yet?
Thanks in advance!
cwayne758 Yes, you can edit the data at any time.
Edit queries - select the table - in the Applied Steps section click on the Gear next to "Source" and it will pop up your manually built table and you can modify/add/remove values and save.
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cwayne758 Yes, you can edit the data at any time.
Edit queries - select the table - in the Applied Steps section click on the Gear next to "Source" and it will pop up your manually built table and you can modify/add/remove values and save.
cwayne758Ah! silly me.
Thank you very much!
- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
For some reason, my Power BI Desktop was not popping up the update message. Did it manually, very nifty new feature!
- DavidMoss
Advocate V
Just the answer I was looking for to modify a "Enter Data" table that needed editing. Thanks.
Anonymous sir could you please tell me how do i enter measure values in "Enter Data" table say suppose i have three
columns to enter data , Employee, cost and rate .I did enter data but when i enter cost and rate these are not shown up as measures and i cannot calculate or create any calculated measure on cost and rate columns , no sigma symbol is showing up for the cost and rate after a load.
can you please explain why?
Also if you could explain any feature that the values entered in "Enter data" such as cost and rate are not visible after refresh, we want data to be confidential and only enter once for calculations and should not be seen after refreshing report the values should disappear.
Thanks
Suresh Ramadurgam
columns to enter data , Employee, cost and rate .I did enter data but when i enter cost and rate these are not shown up as measures and i cannot calculate or create any calculated measure on cost and rate columns , no sigma symbol is showing up for the cost and rate after a load.
can you please explain why?
There are several layers to the Desktop. When you enter data, you can't build any calculations into the table itself. You need to load the data and it acts as your data source. In Edit Queries, this is "Power Query" and you could transform or add calculations in the M language. Once you Close & Apply the data is loaded into the model. This is a "Tabular Model", this is where you could create a measure using the DAX language.
Also if you could explain any feature that the values entered in "Enter data" such as cost and rate are not visible after refresh, we want data to be confidential and only enter once for calculations and should not be seen after refreshing report the values should disappear.
If I understand this correctly, you could create your measures and reference the this "other" table with the measure and hide the table from end users. Then they wouldn't be able to see the actual data other than what was shown via the measures.
- Greg_Deckler
Where/how are you getting/seeing "Enter Data" feature?
GTRHelper III
Enter Data is a new feature that was part of today's update.
- karaoan
Kudo Kingpin
It depends on your requirements. Edit table will only work in Power BI Desktop. If you need it to work on the end user side for just the collection of a few numbers then the PowerApps integration might help you. If you are looking for serious planning functionality, you might want to have a look at: www.acterys.com This solution offers sophisticated write back and planning for Power BI and Excel. In addition to writing to a relational table the solution offers a powerful OLAP in-memory engine on top of SQL Server that caters for large scale multi user write back requirements that typically don't work with sufficient performance if you just write to a relational table.
Martin
PaulDBrownWouldn’t it be nice if we could improve the user experience (ie. for those business users who haven’t a clue about PBI, “edit queries” or indeed sources within) to include a functionality whereby by the click of a button the input table would show up so they can edit away and then close and apply? This would make Power Bi much more powerful for “what if” scenario analyisis, rebates and discount finacial impact etc IMHO....
