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gsu421
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Date and Value recognize as String in Excel when pulling data from PBI Publisher Excel Plugin

I'm importing data set from PowerBI to Excel and creating a pivot table. I realize two things:

Date Field:

Issue

They aren't reconize as date field in Excel.

Impact

This prevents me from grouping the date and view data with date hierarchy.

Things I tried

I tried to change the dataset property on Date Column using Transform in Query Editor. I tried to set them to Date/Time or Date, but none of them works. 

 

Value Field:

Issue

They aren't reconize them as a value field in Excel.

Impact

I cannot drag the value field to Values quadrant in the pivot table.

Things I tried

My workaround to this is to create a measured field in the dataset in PBI. 

 

 

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v-shex-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @gsu421,

 

Based on test, when you "connect to data' function to import data from power bi, these data will analysed to 'general' excel type.


I think current it not support to keep original data type when you use this plugin to conect data from power bi. Perhaps you can share your requirement to ideas forum.

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
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