I know you have to switch to Excel Online in Office Online Server Preview, but I’ve also read that these features are deprecated:
Trusted data providers
Trusted data connection libraries
Unattended service account
Here is what I use Excel Services for:
Connecting to a multidimensional/MDX Cube (NO TABULAR model is ever used)
Connecting to different data sources
Using the Excel workbooks themselves as data sources for SharePoint web parts AND dashboards (PerformancePoint Services)
Excel Web Access Web Part; and again, the Excel sheet connects to a cube, accepts parameters, and it is itself a data source for other artifacts. Part or all of the workbooks are used in PerformancePoint, webparts and report parts.
Sources considered:
http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2016/03/connecting-excel-to-data-with-sharepoint-2016-and-office-online-server-2016/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn141153.aspx#bkmk_excel
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sharepoint-server-2016-whats-deprecated-removed-zeeshan-asad
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I am creating a report in Power BI, where some data is imported from a cloud storage system. There is also a local data source (an excel sheet) being used.
My question is, if I publish this report on Power BI service and share it with someone, will they be able to see visuals using local data source as well?
There is also possibility of using Sharepoint. I can create a team in Sharepoint with the local excel file and use that as a source in Power BI. Am I correct in assuming this way people in my sharepoint team will be able to see all data in the report?
For your scenario with a spreadsheet from a desktop and a cloud data source:
If you prepare the report using import mode in PowerBI desktop and publish it to PowerBI online, then that report data will be visible to all users with access to the report in the provisioned workspace. The caveat is that data will not be able to be refreshed from the Excel file once the report is deployed online. When you create the report on your desktop, you have access to the cloud data and the spreadsheet, then a copy of that data is published to the PowerBI service. When PowerBI service is set to refresh, then it can't connect to your desktop and causes the issue.
To solve this you either need a personal or standard gateway. This provides the technology for PowerBI to connect to your on-premise (standard gateway) or on-desktop (personal mode) data. Once the gateway is in place, PowerBI can pull data in to the cloud from an on-premise network or a personal desktop to refresh reports.
The other alternative is, as you mention, putting the excel in SharePoint online. This effectively makes the spreadsheet a "cloud data source" and can be refreshed from PowerBI service without the need for a gateway.
I want to provide access to data from a DataWareHouse to several users of my company. I need to create a dataset with filtered data and then I want to provide to granted users access to those data inside Excel on Mac Os.
I don't know if this is possible as the feature "Analyze on Excel" is not available for download on Mac Os.
Any ideas?
Connection to the Power BI datasets via Power Query, can't be done on Excel for MacOS as it is not supported. Power Query for MacOS Excel is limited to csv, json and d few others. Power Pivot for MacOS isn't available.
You can connect to OLAP sources like SQL Server Tabular using this paid for option, but only for On-premise SSAS, or Azure Analysis Service. If you have Power BI Premium, the CDATA plugin might be able to connect to the xmla endpoint of the dataset.
The other option is create the filtered data model with PBI Desktop on Windows and deploy it to the service, then to give them access to the Power BI Service. The user can then create their own reports, or export the data via csv, but the export size it limited to 100,000 rows.
For Mac users Power BI is mostly limited to viewing/creating the reports in the service.
I have power bi configured on Azure, a dataset reading its data from excel document which is updated on daily basis.
The refresh is done manually through powerbi desktop. After I click on refresh, my reports and dashboards are reading updated figures, I open it from power bi desktop; however if I open it from any browser, data is not updated, I will have to publish my power bi reports and dashboards from power bi desktop publish button in order to see my data updated from browser.
Power BI desktop is the development tool for powerbi.com, after you have published it to powerbi.com, it has no relation with your offline .pbix file. Publishing it again (with the same name), will overwrite the file with it's data.
So a local refresh in power bi desktop has no influence on the file in powerbi.com
If you want that powerbi.com can read data from your excel file (on Premise), you'll have to setup a powerbi gateway. More information on following link:
Power BI gateway personal mode
On-premises data sources
A personal gateway is required in order to refresh datasets that get data from a supported on-premises data source in your organization.
With a gateway, REFRESH NOW and SCHEDULE REFRESH are supported for datasets uploaded from:
Microsoft Excel 2013 (or later) workbooks where Power Query or Power Pivot is used to connect to and query data from a supported on-premises data source. All on-premises data sources shown in Get External Data in Power Query or Power Pivot support refresh except for Hadoop file (HDFS) and Microsoft Exchange.
I had to uninstall my "on-premises data gateway (personal mode) and reinstall updated version. it is working now.
i have excel reports accessing analysis database. they are uploaded to sharepoint.
After upload they dont work anymore.
secure store credentials for analysis database have been created. connection string in excel is the same as in the other working reports that where already there.
user for the reports is the sharepoint service account.
user has full access to tfs, sharepoint, tfs database server and analysis server
when refreshing the report on my pc trough sharepoint web portal, the graphs get empty. refreshing it on other PC's in the network, the error comes up.
any ideas?
Apparently the cause for the error message was different date/time formats in the excel file and the server.
The file has TT.MM.JJ Germnan format, the server expects english format.
In SharePoint 2010 the business data catalog will be replaced by Business Connectivity Services.
With BDC the data in SharePoint would only be synchronized with the datasource when requested.
Is this still the case with BCS or does this work with live, up to date, data?
Data in External Lists is being retrieved on fly. When user opens a page SharePoint retrieves list data from external source.
When you are using BCS in External Column selected value for that column is stored to SharePoint list until you hit refresh.