powerpivot

Is it possible to connect to a PowerPivot model in an Excel .xlsx file? (Not hosted on a SharePoint site... just the local file). It must be, since Tableau can do it. Anyone have any clues? Short answer: Yes Long answer: Updated versions of either Excel or PP (maybe even Office service packs?) could break your code We were successful in connecting to the PP model using AMO (to add tables to the data source view, add dimensions, add measures, and refresh the model from external DBs). We found Tabular AMO library on codeplex (https://tabularamo2012.codeplex.com/) to be VERY helpful. We were

I am searching for a method to utilize within Microsoft PowerPivot 2010 that will allow me to perform dynamic ranking that will automatically update the associated rank value based on filters and slicer values that are applied. Thusfar, all examples I have seen utilize the Calculate() DAX function that overrides existing filters within the PowerPivot table via the All() function which causes predefined filters that users may apply to be disregarded. To illustrate my requirements, please reference the example below: (Source Data within PowerPivot Window:) ---------------------------------------

I'm very new to DAX and PowerPivots. I am using PowerPivot to pull data from an SQL server. The data I'm working with is pretty large and complex but I'm considering a simplified version of it for this question. Let's say I have 2 columns, one that contains product names and one that contains a date that product was sold. I have a row for each time 1 unit of any product is sold. Product | Date Orange | 08/13/2013 Orange | 08/13/2013 Orange | 08/13/2013 Apple | 08/14/2013 Apple | 08/16/2013 Orange | 08/17/2013 Orange | 08/17/2013 I want to use DAX to get a running count of how much of a product

I have to use excel for this problem. I need to know how to create a pivot table from a very large dataset that's simplified structured looks like this: week 1 week 2 week 3 row 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 I need to use a slicer to use only specific weeks but change the week simply. If I weren't constrained by excels number of rows, I would create a "DATE" variable, and have "week 1, week 2, week 3..." be values for that variable, but this results in too many rows (using 52 weeks, so number_of_rows*52 rows quickly maxes out to 1 million). Is it possible to create a pivot table in excel with a slicer