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Share your thoughts on DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview)
Generally, this is a great feature, thank you, Microsoft. Unfortunately this is not working for AS Multidimensional and the blog post says "Support for SSAS Multidimensional models is not planned.".
But what about making just the first part of the feauture available for Multidimensional, not the whole? That means to allow Direct Query for AS Multidimensional, not the part regarding chaining. This should reduce the complexity drastically.
Maybe someone wants to support this idea: https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=2c704cc7-f74c-eb11-8fed-281878ddff46
And, what if this is not done? Then other tools are still better visualization tools for AS Multidimensional than Power BI (at least in this regard ), see the screenshot here: Hype about DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services – Michael Mertens (mmertens.eu) 😂
- jeroenterheerdt5 years ago
Microsoft Employee
Correct, SSAS Multidimensional support is not planned. Our focus is on tabular models first.