I'm wondering if anyone else is struggling with this. I've got numeric values in my dataset that are defined as decimal and default behavior is to sum. Works well in Power BI.
If I connect to the published data set using Analyze in Excel, those same numbers can no longer be used in the summation region of the Pivot Table. The only work around I've found is to redefine every numeric field as a DAX sum, which is problematic when you have large numbers of numeric data columns.
I know this is how Excel pivot tables normally work against AS data sources for numeric, non-measure columns. Excel pivot tables treat numeric data differently from SQL sources and allow any numeric data to be summed.
I think in this case, the data set model behavior could automate its treatment of numeric data to emulate measures so that Excel can automatically aggregate the data properly in pivot tables.
Thoughts? Anyone else not happy with this issue?
Thanks!
--Treb
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