Excel Work Offline with BI datasource

[AnthonyTilley]

I have an excel work book that is connected directly to a dataource stored in Power BI. the work book works perfect and means that any changes made to the online datasource are also updated in the excel sheet.

My issue is that if i try to minpulate the data while offline i get an error saying that the datasource could not be reached.

I do not wish to update the data only to make changes to the data within a piviot table, such as changeing a filter or close/open a grouping or change the value form a count to a sum.

when connecting to the data directly in the Data base excel can do this as it seems to store all the data that is extracted within the workbook data model. 

is there away of connecting to the BI datasource in a similar whay where by the data once refreshed in the workbook is stored within the sheet in an offline version so that the sheet can be used away from my desk. and can then be refreshed once back online.

i am trying to avoid the need for muilitple data sources to avoide any inconsistancy in the data models.

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@AnthonyTilley,

Currently, it is not possible to connect to Power BI data source in an offline mode, an similar idea about this issue has been submitted in the following link, please vote it up.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17870983-directly-off-line-from-t...

Regards,
Lydia

[AnthonyTilley]

I have an excel work book that is connected directly to a dataource stored in Power BI. the work book works perfect and means that any changes made to the online datasource are also updated in the excel sheet.

My issue is that if i try to minpulate the data while offline i get an error saying that the datasource could not be reached.

I do not wish to update the data only to make changes to the data within a piviot table, such as changeing a filter or close/open a grouping or change the value form a count to a sum.

when connecting to the data directly in the Data base excel can do this as it seems to store all the data that is extracted within the workbook data model. 

is there away of connecting to the BI datasource in a similar whay where by the data once refreshed in the workbook is stored within the sheet in an offline version so that the sheet can be used away from my desk. and can then be refreshed once back online.

i am trying to avoid the need for muilitple data sources to avoide any inconsistancy in the data models.