I have an issue with a pivot table in Excel connected to a SSAS tabular model cube. For unknown reasons pivot tables based on this cube get corrupted sometimes. The displayed column and row labels don't match the by the user selected labels. Every time I refresh the pivot table the label’s gets mixed up even more. When I copy the pivot table into a new Excel-file the issue is solved. But I can't find the cause of the pivot table getting corrupted.
Has anybody encountered the same problem?
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I have built a report using pivot table for a client and he has encountered this problem where if you simply refresh the pivot, it works fine but if you click Refresh All from the Data tab, it gives this error:
“The PivotTable field name is not valid. To create a PivotTable report, you must use data that is organized as a list with labeled columns. If you are changing the name of a PivotTable field, you must type a new name for the field.”
As per my research, the sole reason for this error is, if there are one or more columns in the source data without headers. In my case, the pivot table is based on a Data Model instead of a simple excel table or a range of data. Even then I looked at every column of Data Model tables but found nothing.
Can anyone suggest what could be the reason?
I found the solution for this. Sharing here so it may help someone else. The reason why Refresh worked and Refresh All gave error was, there was no problem in my current Pivot report. It was another Pivot table on a hidden sheet whose data source has been changed. So, traced that pivot table, changed it's source and it was solved!
So my situation is that I am trying to create a set of textboxes that are in a figure that represent a set of information that are easily updatable but the problem is that since I am using a pivot table to organize the information and get rid of replicates, that when the pivot table is updated, these textboxes start displaying incorrect information.
In the example I have put together (the first image being the initial situation, and the second image being after the pivot table is updated) the first part of the figures in supposed to be the month and the second line is supposed to be the day of the month. I used a pivot table so that information could be updated and replicates would be removed. When I updated the pivot table, a line early in the pivot table was added due to new information and now all the textboxes are showing incorrect information.
Is there any way with pivot tables that I can prevent this from happening and keep the correct information showing in the textboxes or is there another way I can do this?
This is the first image where the initial situation is:
This is the second image, where the pivot table was updated and the textboxes in the figures are now not showing the desired information:
I created a new measure in the SSAS cube which calculates the % difference in the amount and the format is set as "percent" in the SSAS solution. My front end is excel 2010, I already have the excel pivot table report ready with all the other fields that were created earlier.
My issue is when I refresh the excel report and pull the new measure, the values are not showing up as %.However, when I create a new connection and new pivot table report, it is showing up.
I tried to change the value field settings of the measure to percentage. But when I deselect the measure and select again, it is not preserving the %, it is showing as decimal number
Can anyone suggest a quick work around for this ?
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I have used Power Pivot to create some calculated fields from a table of data.
Then I use the modified table, with the calculated fields to create some pivot charts back on the excel workbook.
In the same way I linked the original dataset (excel table) to Power Pivot, I would like to link the table in powerpivot with the calculated fields back to excel. Is this possible?
yoshiserry, the best way to share PowerPivot stuff is PowerView (Excel 2013). If you want to share just the table, regular Excel file should be fine -- people even without PowerPivot installed will be able to work with it (with some limitations).
I have a pivot table on excel which uses SSAS Cube. I have selected some report filter as well as some row labels.Later I changed the attribute relationships in the dimension.
I didn't change the names of the attributes of the dimension.
But now when I refresh my excel, all the report filters disappear.
As this excel is on the client site it would create a problem as they do not want to select the filters again.
The dimension still can be seen in the pivot table and has to be selected again.
Can anyone suggest what can be done?
Thanks,
Kiran