Ask a Question grayed out - Live connection to SSAS Tabular

[AUaero]

I've got a report that is based on a live connection to a tabular model running on SSAS 2017.  The Ask a Question button is grayed out in Power BI Desktop.  Any ideas as to why?

I've also uploaded the report to the Power BI service and I don't even see an Ask a Question button there.  I've enabled Q&A for the dataset in the service.  Again, am I just missing something?  This is the first application we've tried to use the Q&A feature as we only recently upgraded our SSAS server.

Thanks!

[Greg_Deckler]

That is a very new feature and I believe still in Preview mode.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-q-and-a-direct-query

Says it only works with Tabular for SSAS 2016 so maybe that's the issue?

[AUaero]

Perhaps it is an issue with SSAS 2016 vs 2017... it would seem odd that a feature wouldn't work in a newer release, though.  I don't see anything in the backwards compatability doc for SSAS 2017 that would suggest an issue.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/analysis-services/analysis-services-backward-compatibility-sql2...

Has anyone else successfully implemented Q&A against an on-premise tabular model using a live connection?

Thanks!

[v-shex-msft]

HI @AUaero,

In my opinion, I think power bi team add specific methods codes to enable this feature with particular sql version. If this feature works well and become a stable version, they may add support to other versions.

In addition, you can also submit an idea for add more sql version support for that feature.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng