TabularAliases

The Analysis Services OLAP engine in Tabular mode has some missing features compared to the Multidimensional mode. The Tabular engine is used in Analysis Services on-premises, Analysis Services Azure and Power BI (desktop + cloud)

Among the features that Tbaular mode does not replicate are

• Member translations
  • This allows multilingual display of a report based on the user.
  • e.g. An English speaker would see "Bikes" and a French speaker wouuld see "Vélo"
• Member Keys, separate from the member Caption
  • This allows reports to be built with member selections maintained when a Caption changes
  • If you update a Caption in tabular mode and have a report filter containing that member, then the selection will no longer work.
    • In Power BI the old caption will be used, and the report will contain no data
    • In an Excel PivotTable the selection will be lost when the data is refreshed, and the default (All) member will be displayed instead.