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hanswittoeck
Helper II
6 years ago
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How to make monthly count?

I have a table machinetype machine type1 mach1 type1 mach2 type2 mach1   Every month I want to take a snapshot of the number of machines per machinetype and append to a table af...
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    6 years ago

    hanswittoeck - Power BI alone isn't great at these kinds of things. I would investigate using Power Automate to access the dataset once a month and then update a SQL table or a table in the Power BI data model with the information.

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
6 years ago

hanswittoeck - Power BI alone isn't great at these kinds of things. I would investigate using Power Automate to access the dataset once a month and then update a SQL table or a table in the Power BI data model with the information.

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hanswittoeck
Helper II
6 years ago

Nice suggestion Greg_Deckler ,

but I keep the topic open for a whileto see if other answers come in. ðŸ˜‰  

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    edhans
    Community Champion
    6 years ago

    Greg_Deckler is right on this. There are some clever hacks involving tricking Incremental Refresh, but they aren't easy to sustain, and if you republish your report, without using the ALM Toolkit, you will lose that data. You need an external process to store your data so Power BI can then aggregate it. Power Automate is a good place to start, but there may be tools outside of Office 365  that can do the same.