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icassiem
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2 years ago
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Point to Point build Master Data from Source direct connection

Good day,

 

i have to build a dashboard directly from sources (slaesforce, netsuite...) to PowerBI with modelling occuring in PBI.

I'm starting with SalesForce, how would i build a Master Dim (Customer) based off the combined source trx input?

How could a build descpencies when no customer match accross other sources etc?

 

Does anyone have examples of the solution im trying to build please, where multiple direct transactional sources will define the master datasets?

 

Please Help

Thank You

  • Salesforce is case sensitive, Power BI is not.  You need to identify and include the Case Safe IDs  in your Salesforce objects before you can use them directly for data modeling. There is a way to compute Case Safe IDs in Power Query, but (obviously) not in Power BI DAX.

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  • Salesforce is case sensitive, Power BI is not.  You need to identify and include the Case Safe IDs  in your Salesforce objects before you can use them directly for data modeling. There is a way to compute Case Safe IDs in Power Query, but (obviously) not in Power BI DAX.

    • icassiem's avatar
      icassiem
      Post Prodigy

      Thank You for assisting,

      Are the field "Case Safe IDs" available from the SalesForce Object API connector?

      With this field could be my dim key for master code?

       

      I am only starting next week, do you have links and examples to follow please

      Thank you

      • lbendlin's avatar
        lbendlin
        Super User

        That depends on your company's configuration of the permissions for the object attributes. Talk to your SFDC admin.

    • icassiem's avatar
      icassiem
      Post Prodigy

      thank you lbendlin i will use the salesforce key field to build the master source