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Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

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WALTER on 12 Jul 2016 18:08:52

I have volumes of information to share with my teams that is best presented in tables and matrices. It would be a huge improvement if they were able to export the data from the visualizations and have the formatting in Excel match the formatting created within PowerBI.

This would be especially helpful for ongoing forecasting activities.

Administrator on 27 Jul 2020 18:00:47

Thanks for your feedback on this issue - while we'd like to enable this, there is currently no timetable around doing so. There is the option as a workaround the create a paginated view as a drillthrough of the visual and have a formatted version you can export to Excel, but understand this isn't a solution everyone can take advantage of currently.

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368cb1b2 3dcc-4abc-b3e8-dfc8261623a4 on 28 Aug 2020 10:29:35

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For me this is way more important to have than the actual paginated reports. Paginated reports are tedious to format and build. The only reason I would build one is just to export the data in the same form as the visual. If this were possible natively in PBI, I wouldn't even need paginated reports.

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5e81e6c5 46e8-ea11-a817-000d3a579c38 on 27 Aug 2020 09:23:52

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

we really need this functionality

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4ef83edd 99e7-ea11-a817-000d3a9b112e on 26 Aug 2020 14:43:57

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

This functionality is available in Tableau & QlikView. You would think this would be easy for Microsoft since they own Excel.

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0de792ce f5e6-ea11-a817-000d3a579c39 on 25 Aug 2020 17:13:45

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

Please Microsoft.

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85498850 1bd7-ea11-a813-000d3a579c39 on 18 Aug 2020 19:29:26

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

How does the 8th most popular idea still need votes?

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e58fe581 50e1-ea11-a813-000d3a579c38 on 18 Aug 2020 12:46:46

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

Much needed one.

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9442b6e7 e1dc-ea11-a813-000d3a579c38 on 12 Aug 2020 21:24:14

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All I can say is that I agree with all the other members, plus, Tableau can do it as we speak.

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6489b41f 9cd9-ea11-a813-000d3a563be2 on 08 Aug 2020 17:29:53

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This is an absolute must have. In our company were used to this type of functionality with other BI tools, like QlikView.

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6e16f3e7 20d8-ea11-a813-000d3a8b3802 on 07 Aug 2020 14:35:24

RE: Allow Table and Matrix Data Exports to Match PowerBI Visual

I want to follow up on my comment from yesterday. I've only been working in Power BI a few weeks, but I already see many advantages over our current BI tool that utilizes MDX. We already extensively use Excel's PowerPivot as a front-end to or SQL back-end, so bringing everything under the Microsoft umbrella makes sense to me. Which is why I am so disappointed to find that we can't export a matrix as it appears in PBI into Excel. This is such as fundamental request and NEED that I can't believe it was first proposed here over 4 years ago and still hasn't been incorporated into the product. Our employees shouldn't have to deal with having to further manipulate the underlying data once it's exported to Excel. That's the purpose of Power BI - eliminating the need for them to do that!! Even with all the limitations of our current BI product, it has had this feature for years. Please Microsoft, get this done.

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0400a070 23d8-ea11-a813-000d3a8b3802 on 06 Aug 2020 20:33:15

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Please prioritize this feature-- this would make power BI extremely powerful, and save HOURS on a regular basis for developers who have to work around it.