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stansw / vsts-open-in-powerbi

Visual Studio Team Services extension which allows users to open queries in Power BI.
MIT License
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Love this project! #17

Open SMHolck opened 5 years ago

SMHolck commented 5 years ago

Hi, so not an issue, but I wasn't sure how to provide feedback, and I just wanted to tell you how awesomely wonderful I think this feature is! It is so much faster than the way I was reporting before (analytics view in VSTS to my own model that pulls every project back for all the dev teams and now takes 2 hours to refresh after a year of use). This dream feature you've created allows me to aggregate story points compared to estimated effort to give my project managers an update on the project's percent complete so quickly!!!! (and most importantly gets them off my back)

So thank you, thank you, thank you!

stansw commented 5 years ago

Thank you @SMHolck for sharing the warm words. I've created a special, gold label "inspiration" to mark your comments. I'll save it so that so that I can find it in the future and get more motivation to work on side-projects which help others with their tasks.

Another way you can provide feedback if via review in the Azure DevOps Marketplace. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stansw.vsts-open-in-powerbi

Funny that you mentioned Analytics Views as I was involved in design and development of this feature as well. I hear you that the refresh time is long. One way to consider is to limit the datasets you need (e.g. shorter lookback period, select specific project). Of course if "Open in Power BI" works for you I would recommend sticking to it ;)

RomikMS commented 5 years ago

Hi @SMHolck. Great feedback! Like Stan mentioned, you could scope down or create an Analytics view that only pulls the data you need: see this article. I'm part of Stan's old team, let me know if there is anything I can help with.