How to automate a login and refresh of a spreadsheet via an Excel plug-in?
Hi. I have a requirement to automatically refresh a spreadsheet's data. I'm an Excel novice and have no idea how to do this automatically. To refresh the data in a manual fashion, I perform the following steps: 1) Open the Excel file. 2) Click on the iLEVEL menu option (it's on the top amongst other menu options such as 'Data', 'Review', Automate', etc..). This will present an iLEVEL login icon. Click on this icon and then enter my email address and password. In fact, once I've entered my work email, it uses SSO to gain access instead of entering a password. I do have a password should I need it (needs to be entered somewhere). 3) On the toolbar ribbon, under the iLEVEL menu option, there is the 'Refresh All' option. I click on this, wait a few minutes, and the spreadsheet has its data refreshed. iLEVEL is a third-party software solution. What I need to do is to achieve the above result automatically. At, say, 3am each morning, I would like automatically refresh the data. The updated spreadsheet will then act as the data source for our reporting. In case it's asked, at this time, we cannot look to hook into the view/table that feeds this spreadsheet. Therefore, the spreadsheet is the endpoint. I will investigate this but if you are aware if this can be done or not, and point me in the right direction, it will be appreciated. I'm wondering if Power Query, or something similar, could achieve this. Thanks.How to link data from one worksheet to another in a workbook?
Hi, I am wanting to find a way to how to format my file such that my excel sheets are interlink in a workbook. Sheet "Semester base dates - Column B = Column A", if on sheet "Tuition pattern" - Column I reflects sheet "Semester base date - Column B" eg sheet "Tuition Pattern - cell I15 = 11" it should link to sheet "Semester base date" - cell A41 "Because it is Semester 2 (cell B1); week 11 (I15)" on tuition pattern sheet - this should be automatically reflected on sheet "tuition pattern" column J (Cell J15) (42) Because sheet "semester based dates Cell A46" = 42 What I want to do is when I fill my data for column I - I want to find the corresponding week for automatic filling of column J - can I do that? *won't allow me to copy and paste my excel table to show example
Power Query is Missing Some Values on Import, Causing IDs to Map to the Wrong Records
Hi. I have a Power Query / Excel issue that I just cannot find a solution to, or a similar problem online. I have a third party cloud based database which I am querying into Excel via an OData connection. The source database contains some duplicate names. As this is real company data, I've created a little demo (screenshot below) to explain the problem. So say I had two companies called Bob's Buns in my original data set. Power Query does not pull the second instance of the name "Bob's Buns", which causes all the names below to line up with the wrong IDs. So now "12" is linked to "Clare's Cakes". You'd think I could just make sure that no two companies in my database have exactly the same name and this would fix the issue, but it doesn't. When I pull the data again after fixing the duplicates, it STILL results in this misalignment error. In fact if I renamed Bob's Buns (ID 11) to "Bob's Buns Bristol", and Bob's Buns (12) to "Bob's Buns Birmingham", Power Query still returns exactly the same result you can see under "What Power Query Returns" below. It's definitely the duplication causing the error, as there were a few instances of this within the database, and the same thing happened. I have done a static export to Excel from the source database, and the results line up correctly with their IDs. However, when I used OData & Power Query, I get this infuriating error. I hope I have explained myself OK! Help very much appreciated!
Table Merge from Web
Dear Experts, I need to export the below in a Single Table from below link :- https://portal.3gpp.org/desktopmodules/Specifications/SpecificationDetails.aspx?specificationId=3283 But when I use PQ, it gives me into different Tables, and I have to combine them Manually as below:- How shall , I merge them all into a Single Output? Thanks in Advance, Br, Anupam
"OVERWRITE EXISTING CELLS WITH NEW DATA..." GET DESELECTED
HELLO , I HAVE OFFICE 365 . FROM 1 MONTH AGO THE BUTTON IN DATA TAB THEN PROPERTIES AND IN IT "OVERWRITE EXISTING CELLS WITH NEW DATA..." GET DESELCTED AUTOMATICALLY AND WHEN WE REFRESH DATA IT GET OVERLAPPED . EARLIER IT WAS WORKING FINE LIKE IN SCREEN SHOT WE HAD SELECTED "OVERWRITE........" TAB BUT WHEN WE PRESS OK AND REOPEN IT IT GET DESELECTED PLEASE HELP ON THIS
Organisation Linked Data Type not working
I have a feature table published on Power BI Service that was previously accessible in Excel via the linked data type. However, for the past month, this connection has stopped working, and I'm unable to fetch data from the table. It appears the issue is related to authentication. Even the promoted dataset cannot be found or accessed anymore. This functionality was working fine earlier. I suspect this is due to a change in the authentication or security layer, because when I try to connect to a Power BI dataset in Excel using the "From Organization" option for a PivotTable, I am prompted to authenticate with Azure Active Directory every time. This suggests that persistent authentication is no longer being maintained. I believe this same issue is affecting the linked data type feature in Excel. Could you please clarify Has there been a recent change in the authentication model? Is there a workaround or fix to restore access to the linked data types from Power BI in Excel? Is the linked data type feature being deprecated? II tested on both current channel and beta channel If it's still working on your tenant, please do let me know or if its broken on your side as well , please update so that I can progress the issue accordingly. Thanks
Website Power query connection
Hello everyone, I have a challenges where I want to import data from a website using Power Query for daily refreshing (data refreshes every day at 1pm). Although, when I try to connect to it, the interface in POwer Query doesn't show it as a suggested table, neither can it be seen in web view. Do you have any idea how to actually get the table in Excel (without daily copying and pasting? Here is the link to the website. Data, I want to import, is in a table called Tabular data. https://www.bsp-southpool.com/day-ahead-trading-results-si.html Thank you for your response already in advance. MarkoData model relations not working properly in power pivot
Hi when doing relations i had some strange results, although same when i did in power bi it worked i have 2 tables of customers one with unique values & one with duplicates, so when i made the relation from unique customer ids to duplicate customer ids, then when i did the pivot table by using data model, i used the customer ids from unique table & customer preferences from customer_preference table which contains duplicate ids, but it gave wrong results dont know whyBetter model to improve the performance calculated table/Dax measures
Hi Team, Now, I have an issue with Data model I have developed. Attached is the model i use for my power bi reports that contains 3 dashboards. Invoice quality is one of the dashboards. Below are the requirements to be created for visuals: For the Data[DBName-Point_Id] & Data[Date] columns from Data table, we need to find the status(Dax) as below: *Credit Cancels Invoice -- Number of Credits = Number of Invoices && net cost = 0 *Invoice-Credit Value Mismatch -- ISEVEN(Net invoices) && Net cost <>0 *Multiple Credits -- Number of Credits > Number of Invoices && Net cost <>0 *Multiple Invoices -- Number of invoices >1 && Number of invoices >Number of Credits We need to use this Status dax in visual y-axis of stacked bar chart and use the Count of Dates from Data table as x-axis: Number of Credits,Number of invoices, Net invoices and Net cost can dax or a calculated table columns. Currently, we have created a calculated table using dax logic as below: Invoice Issues = CALCULATETABLE ( SUMMARIZE ( Data, Data[DBName-Point_Id], Data[Date], "Invoice Issue", SUM ( Data[Invoice / Credit] ), "Number of Invoices", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Data[Invoice / Credit] ), Data[Invoice / Credit] > 0 ), "Number of Credits", CALCULATE ( COUNT ( Data[Invoice / Credit] ), Data[Invoice / Credit] < 0 ), "Net Cost", SUM ( Data[Cost] ) ), Data[Source] = "Invoice" ) Based on the above table, Status calculated column in created in same table: Status = IF ( 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Invoices] > 1 && 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Invoices] > 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Credits], "Multiple Invoices", IF ( 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Credits] > 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Invoices] && 'Invoice Issues'[Net Cost] <> 0, "Multiple Credits", IF ( ISEVEN ( 'Invoice Issues'[Net Invoices] ) && 'Invoice Issues'[Net Cost] <> 0, "Invoice-Credit Value Mismatch", IF ( 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Credits] = 'Invoice Issues'[Number of Invoices] && 'Invoice Issues'[Net Cost] = 0, "Credit Cancels Invoice", BLANK () ) ) ) ) This calculated table is then connected to Points and calendar table DBName-Point_id(points table) --DBName-Point_id(Invoice Issues table) Date (Calendar table) -- Date (Invoice Issues table) This setup causes performance issues especially Status column. Is there any better ways to model this to improve the performance? please let me know if you need further info! PFA file here PR-419 - Data Coverage - Copy (4)_Daxoptimize_copy.pbix Thanks in advance! SergeiBaklan​
