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RE: Inherited Power BI Reports

Hi Donnacha, That's a tricky one. In lesson 7.04 there is a lesson on lineage view, but this won't tell you what fields are in use, only how data is...

5 months ago
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RE: Ultimate Personal Budget & Interactive Dashboard not marrying up actual and budget item

Hi Rennae, You shouldn't have to start again, but it's difficult to help you fix it without the file. Are you able to upload it here? Remove any sen...

6 months ago
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RE: Best way to query a MySQL database

Hi Bax, I would use the MySQL Database connector. This will allow you to have Power Query write the SQL for you and leverage query folding which pu...

6 months ago
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RE: Data sorting issue (table vs dashboard)

Hi Rik, You can see the options for sorting PivotTables here. Mynda

6 months ago
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RE: Auto update - between two pages excel

Hi Sathish, Your file isn't attached. To attach it, select the file, click 'Upload', then wait for the grey check mark beside the file size before ...

7 months ago
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RE: DAX Measure

Hi Ian, The DAX FILTER function's second argument must return a Boolean true or false value. This: Hours[End of Week] = [Start Date] Returns...

7 months ago
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RE: Formula exceeded the number of characters allowed.

Wow, Inga! That is the biggest formula I've ever seen! First, if you ever find yourself writing a formula that's even 1/4 of that size, you should ...

7 months ago
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RE: Fiscal year - calendar year - help and advice, please

Hi Chris, I usually write fiscal periods like this: FP2024_01 for April FP2024_02 for May and so on. Where FP stands for Fiscal Period. ...

7 months ago
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RE: Excel Python #TIMEOUT! error

Hi Sjaak, The BLOCKED and TIMEOUT errors should not be permanent. If you're still experiencing them, go to the Help tab and send feedback so Micros...

8 months ago
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RE: auto update pivot table from data in a folder

Hi Christopher, Glad my tutorial was helpful. If you wanted to get data from a different folder, you'd need a separate query for this, which you...

8 months ago
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RE: formula

Hi Sohail, The REDUCE function here isn't being used as it was intended. It is supposed to be used with a LAMBDA that accumulates to a single value...

8 months ago
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RE: Cleaning Data - removing symbols but maintining "-ve"

Hi Nick, You can use Power Query to clean this data. In the attached file (sheet 'Table1') I've loaded your data to Power Query and replaced the as...

8 months ago
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RE: Pivotby / Groupby Multiple Aggregations

Hi Ben, In my Advanced Formulas course, I teach how you can use HSTACK or VSTACK to return multiple functions. e.g.: =PIVOTBY(Table1[[#All],[Seg...

8 months ago
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9 months ago
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RE: Power Query file - one file updated periodically (then cascade to other files)

Hi Josh, The very last lesson in the course is on Custom Data Types. I think this will be of use for your Proforma Template. From what you desc...

9 months ago
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