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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 13 May 2023 12:04:57

Feature has been released in public preview.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:16

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

Going to pile on here...so needed!

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Fred Kaffenberger on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:12

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

We need this, but here are two more workarounds, just for fun.
1. Create a table with the same format that the matrix exports in Power BI, open the analyzer and copy the dax query and then connect to the datasource in Power BI Report Builder. Build a matrix there, and export that directly. You may have to add sort column as a row above the column headers to get them to sort. Export of matrix works perfectly from Power BI Report Builder.
2. Analyze in Excel the report. Build a pivot table from the live data model. The advantage of this solution is no export to excel is needed.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:04

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

This is a huge missing in Power BI. You should be able to create an XLSX export beyond a simple CSV.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:01

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

Add this useful feature

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:53

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

Really need this feature please!

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Zohar Solomon on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:49

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

please add this feature

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MArce on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:47

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

and I hope they consider the export of the matrix as is on the screen to excel. Dumping thousands of rows from an aggegated visual is dumb.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34526479-allow-export-of-summarized-data

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Anon on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:35

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

Hopefully, this feature will be enabled soon. I have tried the paginated work around, and it performs poorly. The performance is faster using an OLAP connection through Excel to the dataset.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:31

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

Please make it a priority to add this feature. This is a badly needed feature for our financial folks using this product, it should be a priority.

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Emily on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:18

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

This would be very helpful! Thanks for your consideration.

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