Select table containing the right data with dropdown menu

[TommyMossberg]

Hi
I have a excelfile with multiple sheets and tables that I want to use in Power BI
In Excel I have used VBA, pivot and Sunburst charts to make a easy to read presentation of our progress at work.
So this is what I want to present.

Each sheet contains a ton of data (23x2600 cells) and represent a specific progress period. And with the dropdown I choose what table Excel pulls the data for the pivot that is presented as sunburst charts.

I think I can figure out the filtering to create the sunburst but I cant figure out how to let the user choose progress period. 

So to make the question easier to understand. How do I create a dropdown that tells powerBi excatly which table/sheet I what PowerBI to pull the data from?

Thank you in advance
//Tommy

[v-lili6-msft · Accepted solution]

hi, @TommyMossberg 

Do you mean that different progress periods are in different tables or data source?

If so, you could try this way:

Step1:

In different progress periods tables, add a tag column, eg. "period 1" for progress period 1 table "period 2" for progress period 2 table, etc.

Step2:

Then append the different progress periods table into one table.

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/append-queries-power-query-e42ca582-4f62-4a43-b37f-99e2b2a4...

http://radacad.com/append-vs-merge-in-power-bi-and-power-query

Step3:

Create the report based on the new append table.

Step4:

Use tag column as a dropdown slicer. 

If not your case, please describe it with sample data.

Best Regards,

Lin

[TommyMossberg]

This might be a solution 🙂

I'm trying to do this in PowerBI but I'm getting a lot of errors. If I can solve them I'll mark this as "Accept...." otherwise I'll come back with more info.