This would be especially helpful for ongoing forecasting activities.
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"Feature has been released in public preview."
How do I use it????
You can export to excel when using Inforiver and the exact same formatting that you see in Power BI is retained.
This includes
- Order of columns
- Entire matrix/specific row/column selections
- Column names as edited in the visualization
- Row-first/column-first export for matrix/tables with a large number of rows and columns
- Number formatting such as decimals, prefix/suffix
- Notes and annotations
- and more.
Check out this video for more details.
It is a very useful feautre but it should let users to select using this Preview Feature as default or not.
The export works for "simple" table (thanks for that) however it still needs to be improved: Mixed up columns and hierachies confuse the result. It would be great to have the columns in the same order.
need to have this in desktop version
Definitely a big step forward but it does bring the 150k row limit to the forefront. Specifically, when exporting a matrix with a high number of columns (i.e. where month is in the column and 12 months of data is being exported), the 150k export limit seems to be enforced against the underlying data. The result is that the export may contain rows orders of magnitude below what was expected (only 12,500 lines can be exported in the 12 months example). May not be possible to apply the 150k limit to the final export in the current layout but as is it can often turn a quick pull of a single matrix into multiple time consuming exports.
This definitely needs more testing, I have tried this on a table visualisation that shows financial results. The first column comes from, what we call, a Spec table, that allows us to control the GL account groupings, the row descriptions and the order in which they appear. The rest of the columns are all measures that we have defined for our GL data to display Current Month and YTD Actuals, Budget, Variance $ and Variance %. When we export the report using this new option the Variance $ columns appear as the first 2 columns in the export, i.e. before the row descriptions, and the Variance % columns appear towards the end, rather than next to their corresponding Actual and Budget columns. The export also includes additional columns, showing information related to a table that is used for conditional formatting. I can see how this additional information may be useful, but wasn't the expected outcome.
Needs more testing before final release!
I have found for the default hierarchy in the matrix the columns are displayed in the order of the values/columns were "added" to the table rather than the order shown in the matrix. This means I am having to remove values from the table, saving and re-adding in the order I want them shown. a lot of bother especially with the formats on selected columns.
Interestingly if you expand a level then the column order reflects that shown after the additional column showing the next level. Surely if the display order has been evaluated for these levels it can simply be used for the default level.
Yes this is now working - however I agree with a previous comment - the columns are not exported in the order as per the order as the visualisation - which was very confusing. Otherwise was great to see this finally. Thanks!
Administrator on 5/13/2023 12:04:57 PM
Feature has been released in public preview.