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Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

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lisaprice on 07 Dec 2015 13:25:57

The new auto Date Hierarchy which came out in the November update is excellent, but does not seem to be available when connecting to a SSAS Tabular Model. Desktop appears to recognise a Date field, but will now activate the hierarchy action.

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7c0b3015 1183-4b46-8df2-07ad5842aa76 on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:00

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

This is so important for Tabular users! Please do something about it.

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4f9df6c7 6f89-4a15-b7f6-1ddf6affa7fc on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:46

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

Pretty poor that the same data type delivered in 2 different ways is treated differently by PowerBI. Will result in people not using SSAS tabular cubes

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40ac4e40 5f60-4623-8a13-3f2b8e7761ad on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:37

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

Really need this after connecting through SSAS on-prem

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43a13edc 2195-403d-a19b-f2de29ef1137 on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:06

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

This is a big one for our public organization. The ability to see/drill through data in trends over time seems like a no brainer to our executive team, and without functionality like this we have to fake it, use numbers to represent months, and it just doesn't look good.
Would be awesome if this could be fixed and would impact our organization's uptake of the tool.

Thanks!

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851f242b 4f60-e911-a98c-000d3a4f3343 on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:08

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

Very important. This renders trend lines on line charts completely unusable as they have to be in a date format. Ultra granular data daily is sometimes worthless as a visual.

The behavior needs to be the same as deployed models.

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1258e6ff c4bb-4a19-a487-f4d1e5b06fb6 on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:53

RE: Enable SSAS and Date Hierarchy

It is interesting that the Multi-Dimensional models have their complex ragged hierarchies supported in Power BI, but NOT the basic SSAS Tabular Model via on-premise live connections. It would seem to be simpler to support the SSAS Tabular Model fixed hierarchies.