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Title: Including a user-defined table in a report
Post by: dougp on 28 Oct 2020 01:49:06 PM
Is the only way for a user to include a table in a report to upload a spreadsheet and combine it with [whatever] in a data module?

Power BI provides the user the ability to define a table.  That's what I'm looking for.
Title: Re: Including a user-defined table in a report
Post by: MFGF on 28 Oct 2020 02:56:48 PM
Quote from: dougp on 28 Oct 2020 01:49:06 PM
Is the only way for a user to include a table in a report to upload a spreadsheet and combine it with [whatever] in a data module?

Power BI provides the user the ability to define a table.  That's what I'm looking for.

I have seen reports in the past (I think it was back in Cognos 10) where the author added manually coded SQL using literal values to emulate a table, then joined this within the report to other data. Is this the sort of thing you're looking for Doug?

Cheers!

MF.
Title: Re: Including a user-defined table in a report
Post by: dougp on 28 Oct 2020 06:16:34 PM
Nope.  This would be for my users.  No SQL.  You can't require people who analyze data to know a data language.  :P   I'll get them to use data modules and Excel files.
Title: Re: Including a user-defined table in a report
Post by: MFGF on 29 Oct 2020 07:18:03 AM
Quote from: dougp on 28 Oct 2020 06:16:34 PM
Nope.  This would be for my users.  No SQL.  You can't require people who analyze data to know a data language.  :P   I'll get them to use data modules and Excel files.

Yep - it could be quite dangerous too giving regular users access to SQL :)

Sounds like Data Modules and uploaded files are the way to go. Good luck!

MF.