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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

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.

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      HarrisMalik
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      11 years ago

      Well this is very frustrating. Before the hierarchies were shown as attributes so we can still use them but now they are completely gone which made it impossible for us to use the tool. It is same with the drill down reports which are not working with new report canvas. We were very excited for GA but not anymore:(

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        WillT
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        11 years ago
        Hi everyone. Andre's right - we had a lot of features that we wanted to deliver and this didn't quite make it. We are working on it right now! It's also tied into the experience for navigating up and down through that hierarchy and we've had lots of feedback from users that the old mechanism for this wasn't intuitive - so we're spending some time redesigning that. It might mean that we hold back from support for basic hierarchies for a month or so but you won't have to wait long! In the meantime - we've seen most users hide the underlying fields that they use in their hierarchies, if that's the case for you then you can unhide them in the SSAS model and use them in your reports. You won't get the same folder-like structure but you'll still be able to get to the fields. Thanks for trying out Power BI!
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      CyrusOC
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      11 years ago

      The problem is you are giving a "trial" of a version of Power BI that isn't "Pro".  I wouldn't call this release "Pro" as Drill downs, hierarchies and groups using SSAS Tabular sources all don't work.  In my opinion you are really only giving out a free trial of the "free" version.