Salesforce dataset to connect to custom objects and fields

[blphu]

First of all, very impressive with the features Power BI Public Preview, I have one question regarding the Salesforce Dataset though, can it connect to custom objects? I've looked but can't find where it can. Thanks!

[teddy3]

Is there an update on this? We can't do nearly as much as we'd like to in Power BI without being able to sort by or use custom objects.

[vivekdevalkar]

'@TheresaPalmer - I was trying to workaround this and build my report through Power Query in Excel. However, I was not able to find some of the custom objects in the list. Are there any cases when certain custom objects won't show up?

[jeremy28]

Any updates here? Would be great to see custom objects as part of the roadmap here...

[sebastas]

I love Power Query but would love to have a console in excel and use SOQL or SQL instead of PFQL, I am familiar with SOQL/SQL but learning another query language becomes time consuming and confusing in the long term

[mklein]

The ability to query SFDC custom fields & objects is absolutely critical for us. Not useful without it.

[topjaba]

Not supporting custom objects/fields pretty much alienates our company from giving any serious consideration to Power BI. The offering looks very promising but we'll have to wait for some evolution.

[andy_berquist]

Can't you get around this by connecting to a SalesForce report that contains custom fields?

[jgardner03]

Absolutely. We use a customized force.com CRM and the ability to connect to custom objects is a must

[fbcideas_migusr]

We use RemedyForce and this will be essential for our consolidated reporting. The Salesforce Reports connector has a row limit of 2,000 records which means it is no good for full history reports

[lau4551]

Salesforce report has 2000 rows limitation. Custom object will be very useful for my company to create report. we can write query to get particular columns and joining objects without number of rows restriction.