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jbocachica
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Q&A Analysis Services Connector

Hi all, did you know that the Analysis Services Connector doesn't allow Q&A?, am I doing something wrong?

 

QandA SSAS Tabular.png

John Bocachica
Senior BI Consultant
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Anonymous
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No, you aren't doing anything wrong. Straight out of the box it doesn't work for on prem, link here: (Third bullet under "Important")

https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/471633-sql-server-analysis-services-tabular-data-...

 

Here is the link for voting that the feature get added:

https://support.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi/suggestions/6939209-add-q-a-capability-for-datase...

 

 

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The reason for this is that Q&A currently relies on the data model being available in our back end (in the cloud).  When using the AS Connector, the Data Model resides in your environment and Q&A isn't aware of it, so it can't use it.

 

Definitely vote up the item on support.powerbi.com if this is important to you.

Adam W. Saxton | Microsoft Employee | Azure Data / Fabric CAT
@GuyInACube | youtube.com/guyinacube

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Anonymous
Not applicable

No, you aren't doing anything wrong. Straight out of the box it doesn't work for on prem, link here: (Third bullet under "Important")

https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/471633-sql-server-analysis-services-tabular-data-...

 

Here is the link for voting that the feature get added:

https://support.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi/suggestions/6939209-add-q-a-capability-for-datase...

 

 

The reason for this is that Q&A currently relies on the data model being available in our back end (in the cloud).  When using the AS Connector, the Data Model resides in your environment and Q&A isn't aware of it, so it can't use it.

 

Definitely vote up the item on support.powerbi.com if this is important to you.

Adam W. Saxton | Microsoft Employee | Azure Data / Fabric CAT
@GuyInACube | youtube.com/guyinacube

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