- Create a new Power BI Desktop model file and establish a data source query to the data warehouse or source system.
- Create essential dimension and fact table M queries, such as Date, Sales Territory, and Internet Sales.
- Create a connection to the Excel forecast file and build queries that unpivot the columns of each forecast table.
See the Parameterizing your data sources recipe in this chapter for examples of storing data source information such as folder paths and filenames as parameter values. This approach is recommended for all data sources and is especially valuable with file data sources maintained by business teams on network directories. The owner of the Power BI forecasting file (PBIX) ...