If you have ever tried to create a PowerView report within Excel that is populated directly from an Analysis Services Cube, then you may have come across a small roadblock where PowerView refuses to work. All is not lost though, you can trick Power View into thinking that it is querying a real table by using PowerPivot to craft the query first.
The only downside to this is that we don’t have to use PowerQuery as much any more…
Export PowerView Dashboards as PowerPoint To Create Dynamic and Interactive Presentations
PowerView is a great tool for creating reports and dashboards directly from Dynamics AX, and is by far one of the cooler reporting tools that you can use. It has a very cool feature that allows you to export any of your saved dashboards to PowerPoint, and these reports become interactive when you go into SlideShow mode. This is a great way to create template presentations that you can use over and over again and always have the most up-to-date data showing.
Never again will you have to create 100 variations of the same sales report where the only difference is the customer account that you are reporting on.
Create PowerView Dashboards directly from Dynamics AX
If you pay attention to your Dynamics AX screens, you may notice a new button has shown up with an Analyze This label. When you see it, click on it as soon as you can because it will open up a PowerView reporting dashboard that allows you to create your own reports on the fly.
With this new tool you can create your own dashboards and reports without having to bother your IT department.
Perform What-If Analysis Within Excel using PowerBI
Sometimes you want to have a way to juggle numbers a little to perform quick what-if analysis, but you are not committed to the change at the time so you really don’t want to be changing the codes within Dynamics AX just yet, and would rather have the changes remain off-line until some time in the future.
In this example we will show you how to use an off-line worksheet that contains all of the changes that you want to make along with PowerPivot and PowerView to create a simple dashboard to track the impact that changes would have on your data.
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