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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

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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    daguto81
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    11 years ago

    Well this kind of throws a wrench into things. 

     

    I{ve been pushing in my company to use a BI Service and Power BI was the main contender. Sisense was the other one because of general polish and the drill down mode and Power BI having he Q&A kept it alive. Then I learned that using hierarchies you could basically do Drill Down and it was a no brainer that Power BI was the way to go (Taking into account that this worked 10 days ago). 

     

    Now last week the Drill Down feature just dissappeared, I contacted support and they told me it was down for a few days for the GA release so all was good. Now it seems it's not coming for a while now.  Now I have to go into the office tomorrow and explain how the Drill Down functionality is simply gone from Power BI which will not go well. 

     

    I hope you guys reintroduce Hierarchies and Drill Down (which I'm sure you guys are working on integrating it into the new canvas) pretty soon so that my bosses can take another look at Power BI

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    HarrisMalik
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    11 years ago

    Well the situation is same at our end. We are in phase of BI tool selection and our management had some concerns that Power BI is not a mature product right now and these type of things actually add fuel to fire.

     

    I agree with most of the feedback that the old hierarchies and drill down was not very intuitive but there is big difference between non intuitive and not available. Microsoft made us to re-think our plans.

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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!