Currently,I am using Postgres as my data source to powerbi reports.
My requirement is:
Power BI report must generate a report based on the output of a query which user runs everytime.
For Eg: If User A(webapp user) runs a reports with one Start Date and End Date on a webapp which runs a query to store the output in postgres table.
Now the User B( powerBI user) from the embedded poweribi url he need to fetch and generate the report with the filters which User A has applied.
Basically power bi query for the output of dabase query. Is this acheivable through Power BI??
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i am connecting to my power BI account and getting list of datasets:
Why "Tables" atribute is empty? I pushed report with 4 tables:
So what i want to do is to get list of tables for specific report and change Power M query language as source.
Best,
Jacek
I need help with the the following:
I got an OLAP Cube, let's call it "company_prod" on "server\instance"
That Cube has (among many) a calculated member called "[Measures].[Value]"
One of the Dimensions in the Cube is for time (Year, Month, Date and so on). e.g. [TIME].[Y_M_D].[YEAR].&[2020]
Our main frontend is Excel, where we retrieve Data from the Cube with CUBEELEMENT, CUBEVALUE etc.
We got some measures which unfortunately, when I update the Excel report now and show numbers for last year, the result is different when I update that same report in a few weeks or months. This is something I won't be able to change and in some reports it's the desired behaviour because underlying data from SAP is changed and sometimes valid_from and valid_to dates are changed retroactively.
Now I want to get the value from my "[Measures].[Value]" on a certain date, let's say April 1st. I then want to insert the value I get on April 1st for 2020 in a SQL table. This should be done by an agent job that executes a stored procedure or runs a dtsx package or anything else, whichever works.
I hope it's clear what I am trying to accomplish...
If you can create linked servers from your SQL Server to SSAS Server, then you can run your MDX query against the linked SSAS Server using OPENQUERY and save the result directly to the SQL Server table.
i.e.,
INSERT INTO <your table>
EXECUTE <your mdx statement> AT <linked server>
You can add the run the above via your SQL Agent job on schedule.
I'm using TABLEAU Datasource option to run Custom SQL "Select count() from table_name. It is based on a ODBC connection. Unfortunately, I have 400 tables that I need to run my script with 400 lines of "Select count()" , Tableau is not returning the total # of records and is only returning ZEROs. I'm using the Edit Custom SQL option from the Datasource Tab.
I have tried using the View Result after Opening the Edit Customer SQL and selecting the View Result to get the total count. My plan was to include all he 400 select counts in one script and run it. It worked fine as a part of my connection to another database but not ODBC.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ACCOUNTING_BOOKS
The expected result should be,
Select Edit Customer SQL
View Result
Get a listing of counts.
According to this answer count isn't available as a NetSuite function. You might want to follow the link in that article (if you have a NetSuite account) to see if this has changed.
I am using Power BI in my current project for making charts. My data source is Azure SQL database.
I would like a table chart to display today and yesterday data only, for which i used advanced filtering by setting the filter to today and yesterday dates. However, I want to be able to open my report tomorrow and see charts use data from tomorrow and today respectively.
With advanced filtering the charts appear static, not dynamic.
It would be good if someone could explain how to write queries in Power BI on my tables.
You could either
1) modify your sql query to only return today and yesterday data
or
2) add a calculated boolean column, something along the lines of
"IsCurrent = IF(AND(DATEVALUE(Table1[Date])<=TODAY() , 1.0*(DATEVALUE(Table1[Date])-TODAY())<=2),True,False)"
Then filter by IsCurrent.
Using the SDK you can apply filter(s) dynamically to the report. This allows you to simulate the user filtering the report data to the current day and yesterday.
Your client app would compute the correct filter data values and apply it to the report. Using something like report.setFilters(filters)
See this related question for more information about filters:
Power BI Embed URL-multiple filters
This is a little bit of a stretch, but we're trying to convert old reports in an increasingly unstable Access Database and I have a question.
Here's what the report does in Access currently:
The user gets prompted for one of our many Suppliers in a drop down style list
Once the supplier is entered, that Suppliers list of parts will be populated
The report then pulls an email address from our system (IFS) and emails the list that has been populated to the email in our files.
We've made a SQL Query that will pull in the information that we need to replicate the report, but we're at a sort of cross-roads with how to get it to automatically go through the list of Suppliers that are in the Parameters and send off the email to them all automatically.
Would there be an easier way to do this in Crystal Reports (2011) besides automating the report and selecting all the parameters manually or in Oracle SQL Developer through maybe a WHILE LOOP?
Thanks in advance, and if you need any more information, I'll try and clarify!
This looks like a data driven report ( publication). You will run a query to retrieve the list if suppliers and their emails then run a report for each record returned by the query. Let say you have a report , which accepts a parameter SupplierID and the query returns data like this
SupplierID SupplierEmail
ID=1 email=supplierA#mail.com
ID=2 email=supplierB#mail.com
ID=3 email=supplierC#mail.com
The software will get row #1 and will use ID=1, as a parameter for Suppliers report, will export the report and will send the exported file to supplierA#mail.com. Then it will move to the next row and will use ID=2 as a parameter for the next run of the same report, export it and send it to supplierB#mail.com. The same will happen for row #3. You can check also this video, which demonstrates the proces: http://www.r-tag.com/Pages/Preview_CreateBatchJob.aspx .
Because the values for report parameters, emails etc are returned by the query this approach is known as data driven report ( publication).
Data driven publications are available in SSRS if you own SQLServer Enterprise license. There are other types of software who support them. The sample video above is from R-Tag, which could be useful too and supports SSRS, Crystal reports and SQL Ad-hoc queries. If you use Ad-hoc query you can export suppliers data to Excel without creating a special report.