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PowerBI & Spatial Data Questions
v-hjannapu I forgot to add this detail...I'm the tenant administrator, lol.
I'll do the following steps:
1. I'll install the powerbi client that is connected to my tenant not the desktop. My original experiences with powerbi were with the desktop and it did everything I needed so I had no need to use the connected version but Microsoft changes things and I'll walk down this road for now.
2. I have a scenario I should mention. I have 2 office 365 tenants. One were I put my data (Personal Account). The other is a corporate tenant for my business (E3). I had problems working with outside users having to login to see links and files I sent them so I moved my data out of my 365 Corporate tenant to make it easier to work with 3rd parties.
When I do work now, I do the work local and complete 90% and then I upload into the cloud and do the maintenance. Once in the cloud, then I "Favorite" in Office Applications for greater productivity (fast local large disks, GPUs, and cores machines).
Hi residentx,
Thanks for sharing the additional background. Your workflow and tenant separation approach makes sense, especially for external collaboration scenarios.
Doing most of the development locally first and later publishing to the Service is still a common approach followed by many users, particularly when working with larger datasets and higher-performance local systems.
The multi-tenant setup you described could also explain some of the behavior differences you are seeing between Desktop and Service experiences, especially for cloud-connected features.
Please share your findings after testing further with the tenant-connected environment. That information will help narrow down whether the issue is related to the tenant context or the current Power BI configuration.
Regards,
Community Support Team.
v-hjannapu First, I don't think I need shapefiles for everything. PowerBI supported ISO standards and so bounded borders I could do. I did this for counties in many countries in powerbi or maybe that was powermap. I need go back into my old files and find that work.
Moving along, I want post again what I'm trying to do. See the screenshots below
I have these spreadhsheets of zipcodes but I just need to add a color coded maps of the zip borders to make the data more relevant for impact analysis. Let me do more work on this and post my results.
Microsoft is evil PERIOD! Do have a product where none of the features work and you only learn about it when you try to use the features. You need to tell users at the start what featrures work and what is needed to be configured.
Hi residentx,
Thanks for sharing the screenshots and explaining the requirement clearly. Now I understand you are mainly trying to highlight ZIP code regions with different colors for analysis purpose.Power BI can work with ZIP/postal codes, but some map visuals depend on online map services and tenant configuration. Because of this, the behavior may feel different compared to older Power Map/Excel experiences.
Also, as mentioned by danextian , if you need exact boundary-level control for every ZIP area, then Shape Map with TopoJSON/shapefiles may be needed in some scenarios.
Official Microsoft documentation for reference:
Create Shape Map Visualizations in Power BI Desktop (Preview) - Power BI | Microsoft LearnPlease continue your testing and share the results. Your screenshots were very helpful in understanding the scenario.
Regards,
Community Support Team.