{"id":3721,"date":"2021-11-02T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:15:10","slug":"how-to-connect-to-power-bi-dataset-from-excel-as-a-table-not-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"How to Connect to Power BI Dataset from Excel as a TABLE, not PIVOT."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ok, here is an excellent solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; open the pivot table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; put a measure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; double click a number in the PivotTable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; you get a new worksheet with the details of the measure you double-clicked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; right-click any cell of the table you see and click &#8220;Edit Query&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; replace the query content with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EVALUATE &lt;tablename&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where &lt;tablename&gt; is the name of a table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will get the entire content of the table back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use any valid DAX table expression, there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can create DAX queries using DAX Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paste the code there, you have your data in a flat table &#8211; and it is amazingly fast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fAE_qQCxZg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fAE_qQCxZg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: https:\/\/community.powerbi.com\/t5\/Service\/Connect-to-dataset-from-Excel-as-a-TABLE-not-PIVOT\/m-p\/1424056#M110858<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, here is an excellent solution. &#8211; open the pivot table &#8211; put a measure &#8211; double click a number in the PivotTable &#8211; you get a new worksheet with the details of the measure you double-clicked &#8211; right-click any cell of the table you see and click &#8220;Edit Query&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; replace the query content <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3721\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,621],"tags":[927,926],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-microsoft-office","category-power-bi","tag-connect-to-dataset-from-excel-as-a-table","tag-connect-to-power-bi-dataset-from-excel-as-a-table"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}