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Anonymous
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Adding Data To a Table via a Form - Possible?

Hi all,

 

I have a situation where we have a number of new campaigns coming from different departments which we want to track in PowerBI. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to create a form that each department would fill out that would then be added to a data table that I could then use as a lookup for data being generated from other sources.

 

An example: Campaign XYZ is being run by Department 123. Someone in this department would go into PowerBI and fill a form with a field for campaign name and for department ID - after submission, this information would then go into a data table in the columns campaignName and departmentID. When data about campaign XYZ then starts coming through I would could then see that Department 123 set this up and attribute the data to them.

 

I'm not sure this is possible and am thinking that I might need to do this maybe through a webform that adds to a database which is then pulled in PowerBI. However, if I could do everything in the one place it would make life much easier!

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

Thanks,

 

SamB

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parry2k
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@Anonymous it is a great question and here is something will help.

 

 

You can create data entry app usign powerapps (which is easy) then embed that in your PowerBI.



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karaoan
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@Anonymous It depends on your requirements. If it's just the collection of a few numbers then the PowerApp integration might help you. If you are looking for serious planning functionality, you might want to have a look at: www.acterys.com This solution offers sophisticated write back and planning for Power BI and Excel. In addition to writing to a relational table the solution offers a powerful OLAP in-memory engine on top of SQL Server that caters for large scale multi user write back requirements that typically don't work with sufficient performance if you just write to a relational table.

 

Martin

Anonymous
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Hi Martin - thanks for the reply. I ended up building a form in PowerApps which seems to do the trick. There are are a few limitations to it (i.e. anyone who wants to use it needs an organisation login) but for the most part it's worked out well.

 

Sam

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@Anonymous - I am trying to build a form on Power BI, that will perform a write-back operation to my database. I know this can be accomplished using Power BI, but I have an issue when I try adding a new form - I'm not able to see a datasource linked to the form object. All I see is a gallery which is linked to the Power BI data source. Can you please help me understand how you built the form? Your help is much appreciated!

Anonymous
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Thank you @parry2k - those links were very helpful!

parry2k
Super User
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@Anonymous it is a great question and here is something will help.

 

 

You can create data entry app usign powerapps (which is easy) then embed that in your PowerBI.



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