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cjgonzalez
8 years agoRegular Visitor
Change Data Source but Keep Models and Visualizations
Hello, I am using DirectQuery to get data from a data warehouse that we built that we are constantly making updates to. We currently have a single data warehouse that we are connected to, made mo...
- 8 years ago
I like this approach for automation, thanks for suggesting the approach. For manual updates I just use the Change Source dialog in Data Source Settings:
vjnvinod
7 years agoImpactful Individual
how would this work with Excel Pivot data. i am not able to find a solution where Power BI connects to an excel (Pivotted excel) and can extract the data behind that pivot.
any suggestion on this would be highly appreciable
ImkeF
7 years agoCommunity Champion
If you want to extract the data behind a pivot-table in Excel, you would have to adress that source directly instead of the pivot. The Pivot table in Excel doesn't carry any metadata about it that could be retrieved by Power BI.