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Budfudder
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9 years ago
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Online Service Functionality in Power BI

I'm guessing everybody's familiar with the behaviour of the Content Packs and how, when you connect to a data source through them, they automatically produce a whole slew of visualizations and analyt...
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    v-ljerr-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Budfudder,

    How can I get the same sort of functionality from the desktop client? Is it possible?

    You can connect to CRM with Power BI Desktop, however, you may need to rebuild the whole reports yourselves. Or you can make use of CRM solution template. There seems no easy way to do it currently.:smileyhappy:


    Do I have to tell you that this is an absolutely ridiculous restriction? It means that Power BI Online is simply unusable by my company as we have more than 100,000 records on several tables.


    In addition, I would suggest you to submit your requirements on Power BI Ideas and vote it up to improve the functionality of CRM content pack.

     

    Regards