I have an Excel workbook with a Power Pivot model. When I open the workbook and select Manage Data Model, I'm taken to the Power Pivot screen. There are seven tables compromising the model. I'm trying to determine where data is coming from for one of the tables. When I click on the tab associated with the table, and select the Design menu option, the Table Properties button is disabled. However, there is no link icon in the tab name indicating a link to another table in the model. So, my question is, in this case, how do I determine where this data came from?
The original designer of this model isn't readily available at the moment.
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I'm on Excel 2013
Is it possible to EXPORT a powerpivot table and have FULL pivot table drop down functionality without the connected data?
1) I'm using slicers as filters and want to export specific files based on the Filtered Names
2) Would non Power Pivot / Power Query users be able to view my workbook? (I'm thinking probably not)
I've scoured forums and stackoverflow and was unable to find a clear answer.
I've tested it myself and disabled connection and it looks like the LAST format the PowerPivot table was showing would be the view/data that the user sees.
I agree with your test results. Anyone on Excel 2016 / Office 365 should get full functionality.
You might want to try the free Power BI service, where you can upload your Power Pivot model to the cloud and then connect to it using the Power BI Publisher Add-In.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-publisher-for-excel/#connect-to-data-in-power-bi
You can set a CSV file with your data as your data source in powerpivot and just point your data model at the CSV. I do this to slim down big models. The data lives in the powerpivot cache level but is not a literal tab in your workbook also much smaller footprint. Works like a tiny database connection. Go to the powerpivot screen choose "From other sources" on the home ribbon, and scroll to the bottom for a text file or CSV. Easiest way to make a pseudo-data mart.
I guess I am not sure what you mean by export the table, The pivot would show without the data connection, but without the full model behind it in the data layer changing anything would just lock it up.
I unioned two tables (AccelerateData and Adjustments) in PowerQuery and loaded them into the data model (table name in the data model is AccelerateData). Afterwards I created a pivot table from the data model to analyze it. I want to make the data model accessible to other users as well and therefore I'm doing some tidying up.
In PowerPivot there is the option to "Hide from Client Tools". I have done this for the non relevant PowerPivot for columns and tables. However, I always see the source data tables from PowerQuery in the field list of the pivot table and can't find out how to hide them.
Anybody knows how to not show them in the field list?
Thank you very much!
I don't see a way to do exactly what you are asking under the All tab, but you can easily hide (or unhide) any sources from the Active tab with just a right-click and Remove from (or Show in) Active Tab.
In my opinion, All really should show all dependencies rather than some arbitrary user defined selection with the Active tab being used for customization and this seems to be how Microsoft built it.
After hiding them using the "Hide from Client Tools" option in Powerpivot, you also have to right-click and refresh your pivot table. That should hide the fields from the pivot table fields list.
I found a better solution than using the "Active" / "All" tabs.
In Excel, go the table you want to hide, then go to the Power Pivot tab, and select "Add to Data Model". This will make the table directly visible in Power Pivot, where you can now "Hide from Client Tools".
I agree that the PivotTable Fields view shouldn't include tables outside of your data model, but with this solution you at least gain control of hiding them, and as long as you don't create any relationships you should be ok in terms of performance.
I am currently able to use Power View to view, filter, and highlight my data. However I haven't figured out a way to link my table rows to the data source (i.e. tables in other tabs of the Excel spreadsheet).
so that if I double-click on a row, Excel will direct me to the appropriate table and show me the full content of that row (so that I can see data in the other columns that I wasn't showing in the Power View dashboard).
For example, I wouldn't put a "Description" column into the dashboard but I would want the user to be able to find and see the paragraph-long description for each item if he or she chooses to drill down.
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I want to be able to click on any of those five line items and go to that table with that table filtered for only that item.
Does any one know how to do this?
This is not something that's supported in Power View.
HTH,
-Lukasz
I have data in powerpivot that I've modified and I'd like to place it into the workbook as a regular table (and not as a pivottable). I need this so that I can run use the table for some vlookups from another worksheet in the same workbook.
I found this answer: link which I will try and summarize with out cutting and pasting to much. This assumes you have powerpivot installed.
goto powerpivot and "import from and external source" the data you want to munge and bring back into the workbook as a table
Key here is to select the checkbox “Enable selection of multiple tables”.
when prompted at the "import data" window, pick pivot report (you won't really use this)
go back to powerpivot with the "Manage Data Model:
add a new measure below your data. something like: NRofOrders:=COUNTROWS(values(FactResellerSales[SalesOrderNumber]))+0
(you won't really use this but this seems to change the query to this table so that you can use DAX)
also add any columns that you want ( for me, this is want I wanted that I wanted to be reflected back in the workbook)
back to Excel, select the data tab, click on Existing connections and select Tables: and then pick a table from your query.
boom, you're done
(the link continues on and you should read that as it's interesting but at this point you should have powerpivot query with your modification as a table in your workbook)
The July 2014 update to Power Query (pushed out at the end of Aug) simplifies the answer. With the new Power Query Update you can pull the data into the Data Model with out having to also copy it to the Works sheet.
goto powerquery and import the data you want to munge. Use the option to just add it to the Data Model.
go back to excel and then go to powerpivot with the "Manage Data Model" button.
munge your data (add columns, whatever)
back to Excel, select the data tab, click on Existing connections and select Tables: and then pick a table from your query.
boom, you're done
In the PowerPivot window you can select the table, or elements of it, and then copy (nornal right click or ctrl +c) and paste that into your spreadsheet.
This works for reasonable amounts of data but if you try and do it with thousands of rows you may find that excel objects and falls over, based on my experience.
Vlookups kind of defeat the purpose of PowerPivot :-)
Found a great solution over on Mr Excel
(http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/power-bi/637919-extracting-static-data-powerpivot-without-pivot-tables.html)
If you are trying to get a PowerPivot table into Excel, then you can simply query it. The easiest way to set that up is to first create any pivot table based on you PowerPivot data. Then double-click the measures area to drill-through. This creates a table with a connection to your PowerPivot model. Then edit the command text by going to: Data > Connections > Properties > Definition tab > Command Text.
Change it to something like
Code:
EVALUATE Table1
I created a Power Pivot workbook that has information from our store (the plan is to connect to this document and consume the data), basically is something like this.
CostumerID | QtyPurchasedProductA | QtyPurchasedProductB | QtyPurchasedProductC ...
Everything is working fine when I use the Power Pivot data as a Pivot Table, but I when I upload the workbook to a SharePoint site and connect to the PowerPivot from another workbook, all of the measures (QtyPurchasedProductA , QtyPurchasedProductB, QtyPurchasedProductC) are shown as attributes instead of measures.
This happens with pulled from my database as well as custom DAX fields.
Any idea why this is happening? Is there a way I could specify on my Power Pivot Central Document? (the one I uploaded to sharepooint)
Thanks
When working with a pivot table (or pivot chart) based on a PowerPivot container local the workbook, Excel will "automagically" apply an aggregation function (Count, Sum, etc) to any field placed in the values/details section. My guess is that this "feature" is intended to make PowerPivot more user-friendly for the average business user...however I think promotes bad habits.
So, you'll want to go back in the local copy of your PowerPivot workbook and explicitly defined the measures. The easiest way to do this is to select the column and choose from one of the listed aggregation functions (see below):
For complex measures, you can use a DAX expression in the calculation area to define a calculated measure.
Once that's done, upload the PowerPivot workback back to SharePoint and you should see the measures when you connect to it and try to use it as a data source in other workbooks.