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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 importance of this feature. However, due to the fact that it has certain limitations and issues, product team has confirmed on the status of the feature. Microsoft Power BI Publisher for Excel is being retired."
I would be pretty shocked if this is the case considering hundreds of thousands of professionals rely on this feature every day to access their data models and reports. Considering our company has many reports built in Excel that use the Publisher for Excel functionality to refresh and analyze data, this would be a major issue.
Can anyone confirm if this is really true and if there will be any alternative solutions?
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:
- Allow users to connect to their data in Power BI and create pivot tables and charts for further analysis in Excel
- 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.
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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:
- Allow users to connect to their data in Power BI and create pivot tables and charts for further analysis in Excel
- 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 ZhengCommunity Support Team
If this post helps, please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.This is a joke right?
Tell me that the Power BI Publisher for excel is still available
Anonymous
I tried to refer the links and it is not mentioed about deprecation.
Please refer the below link.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-publish-from-excel
If the issue is persists, try to upload the file from "Power Bi Service". Please refer the below link for alternate solution.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-excel-workbook-files
If you already raised a support ticket to the team for investigation, please share us here to track on this issue.
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