Important: In Excel for Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, Power View is removed on October 12, 2021. As an alternative, you can use the interactive visual experience provided by Power BI Desktop, which you can download for free. You can also easily Import Excel workbooks into Power BI Desktop.
Symptoms
Assume that you open a Power View report that uses a BI semantic model connection. When you select a Key Performance Indicator (KPI), you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
Power View was not able to complete the action due to a query failure. This can happen if the structure of your data has changed, in which case closing and re-opening the application will resolve the problem.
However, closing and reopening the application don't resolve the issue in this case.
This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
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You open the PowerPivot report from a SharePoint PowerPivot Gallery.
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The Power View report uses a BI semantic model connection that connects to a multidimensional database.
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The KPI you selected is created in the given tabular module.
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The tabular module database is running on an instance of SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services.
Note To apply this fix, install this update on the instance of Analysis Services that hosts the tabular model (where the KPI is created).
Resolution
This problem was fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3)
Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2014 SP1
Cumulative update 3 for SQL Server 2014 SP2
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2012 SP3
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2014 SP1/SP2
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
Learn about the terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates.
