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romgut
Advocate III
Advocate III

data analysis: filter data view based on the report view

Hi,

hopefully I can describe this correctly (with example numbers):

After connecting via CDS to Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM) and the when the dataset is somewhat ready, I go to the report view and start building the visuals, then I notice e.g. Customer X in country DE shows a revenue of 500'000'000 which cannot be correct, knowing the data. First idea: analyse the dataset (ensure it's not because of some post-calculations) and fix the error at source - in CRM.

One way is to add required information to the visual and find it back in CRM but I would like to first have a look at the data, which takes following steps:

  • again, add details to the visual (if not there already)
  • go to the data view
  • find the right field
  • filter until you really find the correct line
  • find the field with the ID to get the related data in a different table
  • repeat the steps above until you can match the record with CRM UI
  • clear filters from the table view

Is there a better way? E.g., I find a strange number in a visual, right click - "Filter Data" or a button in the ribbon on top: "Analyse Data" which will pre-filter all related tables in the table view according to this line in the visual.

  • automatically filter for the Customer
  • automatically fitler for the Country
  • basically take all the existing filters from the visual in the Report view to the Data view in order to go there quick and have a look at the underlying lines.
  • compareable with a DoubleClick on a cell in a pivot table which is connected to an Olap Cube - giving you all the related lines in a separate sheet in excel

 

Please let me know if such functionality exists already or if there is maybe an edd-on on the market for that.

Thank you!

 

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romgut
Advocate III
Advocate III

Hi Kelly and thank you for your reply, it means you read all the long post that I wrote 🙂 

The information on your link is helpful and good to know and I really like this cool thing to put dynamic Power BI URLs in CRM, it's truly connecting Power BI with CRM and I can already imagine some use-cases for this, especially to show some outside-of-crm data, as we have also non-365-erp systems in use.

My question goes to a slightly different direction, starting from a Power BI Report - find a "strange" number and then easily 1) find that data entry in 365 CRM or 2) auto-filter all tables in the table view in Power BI desktop to get quick to the underlying data.

 

Hi @romgut ,

 

Not quite familiar with Dynamic 365 CRM,so pls check whether below information help:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/ui-enter-criteria-filters

 

Best Regards,
Kelly

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no, sorry...! it's related to Power BI only

maybe I just need to get used to work differently with Power BI than I used to with Olap Cubes 🙂

v-kelly-msft
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Community Support

Hi  @romgut ,

 

Check whether below link help:

https://crmtipoftheday.com/861/dynamic-powerbi-prefiltercrmdata/

 


Best Regards,
Kelly

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