I've connected Power BI to our Azure Entreprise billing data using the AppSource "Microsoft Azure Enterprise, By Microsoft For Power BI (Analyze Azure consumption for your enterprise enrollment in Power BI)":
Today I wanted to try the Analyze in Excel feature, so I installed the Analyze in Excel updates, and clicked on the Analyze in Excel button.
I downloaded the .odc file and opened it in Excel, which created a workbook with a Pivot table connected to my dataset in PowerBI. So far, great!
Only problem is in Excel pivot, the data appear to have no measures. In the particular case of these dataset, which is to work on Azure consumption (costs,...), some numerical data like "Cost" should be seen as Measures, so people could work with those, and show Totals, Averages,... Otherwise I don't really see what I can do with the data in Excel.
When you try to drap the Cost field to Values:
It leads to:
I wasnt sure if it was a problem with the AppSource and how it "exposes" the data to Excel, or whether I had to do anything in Excel to turn the data into a measure, so I opened a power BI Sample dataset ("Retail Analysis Sample") also with Analyze in Excel, and this one correctly exposes some of the data as Measures, and as you can see in the screennshot below, I could drag "Total Stores" into the Values of my Pivot, which leads to the expected result:
So in my understanding, the AppSource "Azure Entreprise for PowerBI" isn't exposing the Cost field properly as a Measure to Excel.
Is it something one can work around by himself from within Excel? (I haven't managed to do anything to turn Cost into a measure.
Otherwise, is there a way to get the AppSource devs to be aware of this issue and hopefully fix it?
Thanks in advance