How to automatically Refresh Power Pivot Window when i open excel file , without going the Power Pivot Window option in power pivot tab?
Vinoth,
It is possible to write VBA that triggers a 'refresh all' by placing the code in the Workbook module and using the Open_Event to trigger it as the workbook is opened.
If you are using 2010 then you will need to use this highly innovative technique developed by a guy called Tom Gleeson.
If you are using 2013 then things become more straightforward as the data model is formally exposed to VBA. There are several resources out there including this.
HTH
Jacob
There is a Refresh All button in the PowerPivot tab that you can use for this purpose. This avoids having to open the PowerPivot window just for refresh.
A caveat though: From what I remember, this just updates the tables which are linked from your current Excel workbook - for other types of connection, you have to go to PowerPivot window and refresh the respective tables.
Here is some information I found on a solution for your issue in Excel 2013:
http://www.vandeputte.org/2012/07/powerpivot-nuggets-part-18-automate.html
From Excel (not Power Pivot Manager), open:
Data
Connections
Connections
Then, select your data source and click Properties. You should see a checkbox for refreshing the data when the file is opened.
You can also right click on any Power Pivot chart or tables and click PivotTable Option... and than under data you can select Refresh data when opening the file
Excel 2013 allows for complete data model refresh through VBA. I added a button on my dashboard and assigned the following macro:
Sub Refresh()
ActiveWorkbook.Model.Refresh
End Sub
-Melissa
This is an Excel 2010 specific issue. In Excel 2013 and later the Refresh icon on the Excel ribbon does what you'd expect it to. In Excel 2010 however linked tables, the data model and pivot tables/charts aren't refreshed by the Refresh icon.
We have a solution much better and simpler than the one Tom Gleeson describes https://ukanexcel.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/refreshing-power-pivot-in-excel-2010/
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I have an excel workbook that is to be used as a report, that is distributed to different people. The workbook gets data from an input file (another Excel file) that is not available to all the people who are receiving the report.
My problem is, that when the people who does not have access to the input file opens the report, the workbook tries to update the data, but fails, as the user does not have access to the input file. Is there a way to stop the sheet from auto-updating when it is opened?
Based on the versions of excel I have used, Excel 2013 and 2016 that does not sound like the standard behavior I have seen.
There would be a couple things to check:
1) Is there macros in the file, which run on open and force refresh. VBA command to refresh a data model being the following ThisWorkbook.Model.Refresh
2) Right click on the pivot tables --> Pivot table settings --> Data, check if refresh data when opening the file is selected. Not sure on this one but it might be forcing a refresh of the model.
3) If you are using power query, open the queries & connection tab, right click each query and select properties. There is an option for Refresh data when opening the file.
I want to know how we can inject excel data into embed powerpoint chart.
Any information that I search taught me how to do it, but with create new presentation. I need to update the existing chart from powerpoint using data from excel.
And the method should not be update link or something. Because I deal with more than hundred charts, I'm afraid linked method will take huge resource that cannot handle by my device. The other reason is I need to keep the chart editable in powerpoint (something that cannot done with paste link method).
Any suggestion?
Thanks
it depends of the version of you office. I have 2016 office, so it is very simple to do
these are the steps
Go to INSERT and lok for "Tables", then the opcion called (excel)
An excel view is going to open, then in the sheets you can inser your information, make a table format also
In the excel view the go to Insert, Recommended graphics and select the one you want
here some photos
step 1
excel view
I now that this is more of a license question than a programming question but I couldnt find the answer anywhere.
I have made a powerpivot workbook which I send around amongst colleagues but some of them can't refresh the data and I can't find why. Is it possible that they need a version of excel 2013 which supports powerpivot? Otherwise the workbooks work well for them, i.e. they can use the slicers and trim down the data and look at the graphs an so on.
The macro which refreshes the data is:
ActiveSheet.PivotTables("table name").PivotCache.refresh
If it is a problem with the macro, can I do the refresh in a different way?
We managed to solve it by changing provider, now colleagues without powerpivot can refresh the data with my macro.
We changed to the "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" provider.
You can change the provider under Powerpivot-> Manage-> Existing connections -> Edit -> Advanced and then choose the right provider in the "Providers" dropdown list.
Your Excel 2013 users need to activate the PowerPivot COM add-in in their Excel installations, before they can use the PowerPivot features (including refresh from VBA).
To activate it, go to File -> Options -> Add-ins -> Choose "COM add-ins" from the dropdown and click "Go...", then check the "PowerPivot for Excel"-box.
I have some pivot tables in powerpoint that I embedded. I chose to embed rather than just regular linking as I need to update the pivot tables daily and need to shape them to give only the relevant information.(Sometimes there is more data than the day before which cannot be seen when linking normally as the"window" is fixed.)
I am still very new to the VBA coding field and require a code that will open my Microsoft excel worksheet opject then refresh the pivot inside the object and close it again. I have written code to open the document, save and close the document which is working correctly. I only require that little refresh bit.
Many thanks in advance
I have an Excel sheet which is generated by opening the result from some query based on TFS work items.
I'm using this Excel for my personal planning, but whenever I close the Sheet, it asks me if I want to publish my changes to TFS.
I want it to completely forget that it is derived from TFS, because I fear that some day I may publish my changes unintentionally.
I have tried saving the Excel Document in the oldest possible Excel format, but that doesn't help.
This is much easier than the other solutions on offer:
Click on a cell in the table
Open the Table Design tab on the ribbon
Click "Convert table to range"
Save the workbook
Done!
Disclaimer: I've only tried it with TFS 2012 & Office 2010.
You can copy the list and paste it into another Excel workbook.
There is a procedure that describes how to do this at this Microsoft blog, provided by Dennis Habib:
"Close Excel. Disable the TFS addin by going to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\TfcOfficeShim.Connect and change the ‘LoadBehavior’ from ‘3’ to ‘0’. Open the .xls file. Wipe out the contents of the custom document properties (File -> Properties -> Custom). Save the file and exit Excel. Re-enable the TFS addin."