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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Retrieving information from different Power BI reports

Hello, I'm fairly new to Power BI

 

I'm creating a dashboard on Power BI desktop that has to receive information from other different reports created from different people. Basically all the information I need to retrieve are tables from these other reports, and I use them to build visuals on my own dashboard. Currently I follow these steps:

 

1)Acces the different reports Ihave to gather information from and export one by one the tables that I need to get from them to excel 

2)Stack these exported tables into one central excel file that I am using as my "database"

3)Create my visuals on the dashboard using this "database"

 

I have to update this dashboard daily (sometimes more than once), which means that I have to repeat this process of extraction many times. 

 

Is there a way I could automate this information exportation to excel?

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Need Help

4 Replies

  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Are these different power BI reports(pbix) from which you are downloading this data ?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      Yes, they are different pbix reports.

  • v-alq-msft's avatar
    v-alq-msft
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous 

     

    If you have access to the data sources of other different reports, you may connect to data sources with a pbix file. If you're on premium, you could write an integration outside of Power BI that generates a query using the XMLA endpoint and then sends it on somewhere else.

     

    Best Regards

    Allan

     

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