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HarrisMalik
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11 years ago

No hierarchies when connected to SSAS Tabular

HI   In the new report canvas I do not see SSAS hierarchies anymore. We have a date dimension having calendar year, month, date hierarchy with all the other attributes hidden. In Power BI it only ...
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andre
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11 years ago

Well, my guess is that the development team had to make some tradeoffs in order to meet the GA date and it was one of them.  I am confident that with the focus that Microsoft has on making Power BI the leading BI tool, we will see most of our gripes addressed relatively soon.

 

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CyrusOC
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11 years ago

Not a good tradeoff. The current web report build seems to want to summarize my date column for year.  If I had my hierarchies, it would be really simple.   This is not going well at the moment, I cannot build any useful reports in the web browser.

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    andre
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    11 years ago

    You can still use Excel to build your visuals and publish them to PowerBI.com  if you need any features that are still not present in the Service.  Hopefully, only for a short while...

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      CyrusOC
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      11 years ago

      That is not the point...I want to use what I previously could do yesterday.  I have wasted a whole morning on things that should have worked.  I want to use direct connections with live data to a web based tool...using Excel is going backwards. If Excel is the answer, then why bother with this at all?

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        andre
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        11 years ago

        There are currently several features that are only available in Excel with respect to visualizations and Excel will always be a first grade citizen when it comes to Microsoft BI, so I would not be ruling it out of equation completely.

         

        There will be some frustration for a short while with having features disparity between different tools in the stack and this frustration is well justified. However, Power BI is in Preview right now (even if it’s just for a few more days) and even after that, we’ll have 60 days of free trial for Pro. So essentially we are getting a lot of value without having to pay much for it. If the product is still missing some key features for you, you should probably just wait until it becomes more mature. However, I suspect that for a great number of people (and I happen to be one of them), the product has a ton of very useful features today which more than justifies having to deal with some frustration for a short while longer.