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Announcing the creation of connected tables in Excel Online

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We’ve also been working hard to ensure that all Microsoft 365 update channels are able to use this feature in the Excel desktop application. Insert a connected table in Excel online To connect directly to data in your semantic model: Select  Data from Power BI  on the  Data  tab of the ribbon Use the  search feature  in the Power BI Datasets pane to find the dataset/semantic model you’d like to connect to and select  Insert Table Use the  Create Table  dialog to: Select data to appear in your table in the  Data pane Apply any filters you’d like in the  Filters pane Rearrange the field order in the  Build pane Select  Insert Table . You now have a table connected directly to your Power BI semantic model. Just like with other Connected Table experiences, the workbook contains a connection that you can review and modify in the Queries and Connections properties. Updates to the Excel desktop application We have a quick update ...

Announcing: Enterprise scorecards with hierarchies and linked metrics in Power BI Metrics

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Metrics in Power BI lets customers curate their metrics and track them against key business objectives all in one place, enhancing data culture by promoting accountability, alignment, and visibility for teams and initiatives within organizations. We are excited to finally announce two much anticipated releases in our Metrics experience. With  hierarchies and linked metrics , it’s easier than ever to automate your metric values so you can spend less time crafting multiple scorecards and connections, and more time analyzing your metric performance. Hierarchies is a premium or PPU feature, and linked metrics is a Pro feature. These two features enable easy, large scale enterprise scorecard deployment, allowing automated views of cascading scorecards and linked metrics that show up and are sync’d on multiple scorecards. Let’s take a look at how you can create your widespread scorecard solution: Cascading scorecards with hierarchies: Let’s start with hierarchies. This is a premium featu...