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Software ==>	Power Pivot (43 exercises)
Topic ==>	Calendars and time intelligence (2 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power Pivot training

Import and configure a custom calendar table in Power Pivot for Excel.

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Open the Music Tours Custom Calendars.xlsx file in the folder shown above.

Import the Show calendar worksheet from the Excel file called Show calendar.xlsx into the Power Pivot data model.

Importing an Excel worksheet into a Power Pivot data model.

Import this worksheet.

Mark the newly imported table as a date table, using the Date column as the key.

Marking as a date table in Power Pivot.

Use the Date column as the unique identifier for the table.

Set the default summarization of any numeric columns in the table to Do not summarize.

Choosing not to summarise a column by default in a Power Pivot data model

Power Pivot tries to sum values in numeric columns, like the Year column shown here. We don't want this to happen!

Change the Sort by Column setting of the columns shown in the table below:

Column	Column to sort by
Month	Month number
Weekday	Weekday number

Hide the Month number and Weekday number fields from client tools so that they won't appear when you're building pivot tables.

Create a hierarchy starting with the Decade column. Rename the hierarchy as Show date hierarchy and add the columns shown below to it:

A hierarchy of date columns in a table in a Power Pivot data model.

You can create a hierarchy in the Diagram view of Power Pivot.

Create a relationship between the Show calendar and Show tables.

Creating a relationship between tables in the diagram view of a Power Pivot data model

Create the relationship between the columns highlighted here.

Use your new calendar table to create the following pivot charts (you'll find some measures in the Show table to help you):

Four pivot charts in Excel based on DAX measures from a Power Pivot data model

Change the formatting to suit your preferences.

Add a slicer which you can use to filter all the charts by the Weekday column.

A slicer filtering an Excel pivot chart based on a Power Pivot data model.

Connect the slicer to each chart.

Save and close the file.

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