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rsaccone
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
FetchDatasets was unsuccessful
Multiple users all began experiencing the same error in Excel when inserting a pivot table or using Get Data from the Power BI service, myself included. Browsed forums and see many others have the s...
v-zhangti
4 years agoCommunity Support
Hi, rsaccone
Here are things to keep in mind for connecting to Power BI datasets in Excel:
- Analyzing Power BI data in Excel is supported for Microsoft Excel 2010 SP1 and later.
- Your dataset in Power BI must have pre-defined measures. Excel PivotTables don't support drag-and-drop aggregation of numeric fields.
- Analyzing Power BI data in Excel requires that the dataset be in a Power BI Premium workspace or that you have a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license.
- You have to have permission for the underlying dataset if you want to connect to Power BI datasets in Excel. You could have this permission in a few ways. You could have the Member role in the workspace containing the dataset, or have Build permission for a dataset in a workspace or in an app that contains the dataset.
- You can only analyze Power BI data in Excel on computers running Microsoft Windows.
You can also refer to the following document, which I hope will help you.
https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/collaborate-share/desktop-troubleshooting-analyze-in-excel
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _Charlotte
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rsaccone
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Thanks for your response, but none of these general suggestions are relevant to the problem I described. Others at Microsoft have already responded and confirmed that this is a service issue affecting multiple customers.