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chammel
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6 years ago
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Power BI Publisher for Excel Retired?

I recently received a response from the Microsoft support team mentioning Power BI Publisher for Excel is being retired.    Response from Microsoft was: "I do understand your concern and the import...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    chammel 

    This meassage is confirmed by our team, as of April 1st, 2020, users will not be able to download the Power BI publisher for Excel. Microsoft will cease its support for the tool on June 1st. 

     

    The publisher for Excel included the following functionalities:

    1. Allow users to connect to their data in Power BI and create pivot tables and charts for further analysis in Excel
    2. Allow to pin a selected range in an Excel sheet to a Power BI dashboard

    Alternatives

    As an alternative to functionality 1, users  can launch the ‘Analyze in Excel’ function from within Power BI service.

    As an alternative to functionality 2, user can either Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from Excel or capture a selected range in an Excel sheet, using any clipping tool -> open the target dashboard in Power BI.com ->  click ‘Add tile’  -> chose ‘image option’ -> upload the captured image.

     

     

    Paul Zheng
    Community Support Team
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richard-powerbi
Post Patron
6 years ago

Anonymous i'm on Current Channel aka Monthly Channel accoring to my understanding, and I have an E3 license. I am not getting 2006.....

 

Edit: I see it's only in the Insider channel.

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GMRevenite
Advocate I
6 years ago

Thanks for the info,

 

So if your not part of this insider channel then you can't use the Get Data > From Power BI Dataset.

At the moment we are stuck with a poor work around in Analyse in Excel, and waiting for this feature to be released some time this year.... and no mention of when from Microsoft.

 

Why get rid of the Power BI Ribbon in excel when there is no other option available for replacement.

Microsoft????