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Date with no hierarchy with SSAS tabular live connection

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on 19 Feb 2018 23:05:45

At the moment you do not support the bult-in date hierarchy when connecting to SSAS tabular or when using Direct Queries. That is fine as you built this hierarchy yourself in the tabular model (date, month, quarter, year, month + year etc.). However when connecting to your model, Power BI DOES NOT recognize the date hierarchy as a continuous variable (in stead as categorical variable). This means that a) you cannot apply trendlines under "Analytics pane" and b) more importantly when the system interpret the time as a categorical - it will always show a very annoying scroll bar (which it will not when continuous). Even EXCEL can always handle this - even when it is not recognize the data as dates. Put simply:

You cannot analyze time series data at all when using direct queries or connecting to a tabular live connection.

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Martin McMillan on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:00

RE: Date with no hierarchy with SSAS tabular live connection

So important. Please resolve

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Danny McGreevy on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:09

RE: Date with no hierarchy with SSAS tabular live connection

Kind of workaround detailed here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/SSAS-Tabular-Date-Hierarchies-not-working-with-Live-Connection/m-p/864739/highlight/false#M414922

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Danny McGreevy on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:52

RE: Date with no hierarchy with SSAS tabular live connection

Hi

This is fundamental you our, and I'm guessing lots of companies, needs.