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Creating calculations in Power BI with insightly data
rcallahan In short "yes", Content Packs in the Service are for quick wins, and won't allow you to customize anything.
If the Content Pack is a data source in the PBI Desktop, then you could extend the model there.
If there is another way to access the data source (ODATA or ODBC for example) then you could connet that way.
But in both those cases, you lose the "Model" that has been built for the Service Content Pack.
rcallahanunfortunately, you cannot. The gap here is that only the Desktop supports those actions, and only supports a handful of the external Content Packs. So, if you want to customize things, you would need to see if there are alternative ways to connect to the data source and import it into the Desktop.
The external Content Packs are awesome for quick wins, but not so great if you want to extend the model.
So, the only type of custom reporting I can do with the Content Packs is to create new reports with the existing data and throw some filters on it?
rcallahan In short "yes", Content Packs in the Service are for quick wins, and won't allow you to customize anything.
If the Content Pack is a data source in the PBI Desktop, then you could extend the model there.
If there is another way to access the data source (ODATA or ODBC for example) then you could connet that way.
But in both those cases, you lose the "Model" that has been built for the Service Content Pack.
Thank you!