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PowerPivot in Designer
PowerPivot will be integrate in desginer in some time? or will need always need excel for manage powerpivot?
- Hi - yes, KPIs and the icons for them, as well as hierarchies, will be coming in a future update. Thanks! Will
Yes. There is a tabular instance (local mode) that is a child process of Power BI Desktop. You have a Tabular model with Desktop.
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There are already modeling capabilities within Designer. Calculated Columns and DAX Measures, Relationships. Categorization. Check out the May update for Power BI Designer along with the designer experience blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/04/22/the-power-bi-designer-experience.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/05/19/power-bi-designer-may-update.aspx
Is there something specific you are looking for that you don't see? You can also look to see about feature requests and vote them up at http://support.powerbi.com.
- KPIs?
- And associated visualization options e.g. indicators in a table?
- Hi - yes, KPIs and the icons for them, as well as hierarchies, will be coming in a future update. Thanks! Will
- But what about the great compression capabilities of PowerPivot? Are they available in Designer?
Yes. There is a tabular instance (local mode) that is a child process of Power BI Desktop. You have a Tabular model with Desktop.
- Great! Thanks for your answer. I will try it on.
