The Report View

The Report View is primarily used for developing visualizations, but it also supports modeling features, such as the creation of user-defined hierarchies. In the following screenshot of a DirectQuery dataset, the Customer City column of the Customer table is selected from the fields list:

Modeling options in Report View

The Data Category and Default Summarization properties for the Customer City column have been set to City and Don't summarize, respectively. The Modeling tab of the Report View provides both import and DirectQuery datasets with access to all common modeling features, such as managing relationships, creating ...

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