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rcallahan
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9 years ago
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Creating calculations in Power BI with insightly data

Hi, I'm brand new to Power BI and am still learning what I can do. I've connected to insightly, mailchimp and Google Analytics and have the premade dashboards, which is great. But, now, I'd like to c...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    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.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

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.

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rcallahan
New Member
9 years ago

Thank you!