Analyze in Excel (app)

"Analyze in Excel" works nicely in the web-version of Excel. In the Excel application we have the following issues:

1. Only measures can by aggregated (i.e. not possible to sum numerical variables without defining measures). 

2. The interaction between connected datasets does not work. 

 

Item 2 is a show-stopper for any application with more than one data connection.

Are there any other workarounds than denormalizing the data (one "flat" data source)?

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Hi @christianirgens ,

 

Could some detailed information be provided:
For example, is there a corresponding error message about this error?
Can you provide some screenshots of the problem? Please be careful not to include sensitive information.

 

Best regards.
Community Support Team_Caitlyn

christianirgens
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Thank you for looking into this. 

  1. If you try to drag/drop fields (i.e. not measures) to the "values" area of the pivot table - the following is displayed: The field that you are moving can not be placed in that area of the report
  2. It turns out the second issue is solved when you add a measure to the value area. If you start building the pivot report by adding two row-fields, all elements of the second field are listed on all elements of the first field - even if many of these combinations have no data. This issue is however solved by adding a value field. 

The real issue it thus limited to nr 1.