http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/ Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot, DAX and anything BI-related Fri, 24 May 2013 17:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-9422 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:13:35 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-9422 Strange – what about when you create relationships inside Excel and not in the PowerPivot UI?

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-9419 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:52:47 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-9419 HI Chris,
I do not succeed to change connection which is created through excel UI but then modified with power pivot. Example: connection is made to one sql server database and I am trying to set connection string to another database. If tables are not modified (joined) by power pivot addin everything works.
I tried through com object model and excel macors. Simply Excel does not allow to change anything either through UI either through code.

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-9203 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:14:04 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-9203 Is this for use in PowerPivot too? If so, then this should be the general approach you need, I guess; what error are you getting?

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-9201 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:21:43 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-9201 Hi,
Many thanks for this sample. Not seen this in any other blog.
This is more or less what I want. I tried to use it but got stuck.
I would like to impor data from a SQL Expres database, and be able to filter data (when importing it) using a cell value.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
Jose Lourenco (Portugal)

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-8445 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:22:46 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-8445 It’s because I’m not much of a coder, and while I can hack some VBA I don’t know any JavaScript! I guess 99% of all Excel users will be in the same position too. You’re right, VBA isn’t supported on Sharepoint and I have no idea what the MS roadmap for this is.

]]> http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/parameterising-powerpivot-connection-strings-in-excel-2013/#comment-8444 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:10:57 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1931#comment-8444 Interesting… How come you opted VBA versus the use of Apps for Office framework (HTML, JavaScript) for the Bing app in Excel 2013 ? I have been under the impression that Excel VBA solutions were not supported/functional when Excel is published to SharePoint, Office365 or even in the RT versions of Excel. Has that changed? Do you have any news on support for VBA or macros in Excel futures?

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