Jet Hub - Feature Support

Overview

1. Data Sources

   The following data sources are supported in Jet Hub:

   • Dynamics NAV 2013 to NAV 2018
   • Dynamics GP (On Premises)
   • Dynamics NAV (Remote Data Service)
   • Dynamics GP (Remote Data Service)
   • Dynamics 365 Business Central (Public Cloud)
   • Dynamics 365 Business Central (On-Premise)
   • Jet Analytics Data Warehouse
   • Jet Analytics Cubes

    

2. Supported Excel Formats

   All files to be uploaded to Jet Hub must be in .XLSX format.

3. Supported Excel Functions

   The following Excel functions are supported in the latest release of Jet Hub.  Those not in this list will fail to calculate if they are either dependent upon or a dependency of a Jet function:

   A-C	D-H	I-L	M-Sq	St-Z
   ABS ACOS ACOT ACOTH ACOSH ADDRESS AND ASIN ASINH ATAN ATAN2 ATANH AVERAGE AVERAGEA AVERAGEIF AVERAGEIFS CEILING CEILING.MATH CHAR CHOOSE COLUMN COLUMNS CONCATENATE COS COSH COT  COTH  COUNT COUNTA COUNTBLANK COUNTIF COUNTIFS CSC  CSCH	DATE DATEVALUE DAVERAGE DAY DAYS DAYS360 DCOUNT DCOUNTA DEGREES DGET DMAX DMIN DSUM DVAR DVARP EDATE EOMONTH ERROR.TYPE EXACT EXP FACT FACTDOUBLE  FALSE FIND FIXED FLOOR FLOOR.MATH  GETPIVOTDATA HLOOKUP HOUR HYPERLINK	IF IFERROR IFNA INDEX INDIRECT INT ISBLANK ISERR ISERROR ISEVEN ISLOGICAL ISNA ISNONTEXT ISNUMBER ISODD ISOWEEKNUM ISTEXT LARGE LEFT LEN LN LOG LOG10 LOOKUP LOWER MATCH MAX MAXA MEDIAN MID MIN MINA MINUTE MOD MONTH	N NA NETWORKDAYS NOT NOW NUMBERVALUE OFFSET OR PI POWER PRODUCT PROPER QUOTIENT RADIANS  RAND RANK  RANK.EQ  RANK.AVG  RANDBETWEEN REPLACE REPT RIGHT ROUND ROUNDDOWN ROUNDUP ROW ROWS SEARCH SEC  SECH  SECOND SIGN SIN SINH SMALL SQRT SQRTPI	STDEV STDEVA  STDEVPA  STDEV.P STDEV.S STDEVP SUBSTITUTE SUBTOTAL SUM SUMIF SUMIFS SUMPRODUCT SUMSQ T TAN TANH TEXT TIME TODAY TRUE TRUNC UPPER VAR VAR.S  VAR.P  VARA  VARP VARPA  VLOOKUP WEEKDAY WEEKNUM WORKDAY WORKDAY.INTL YEAR YEARFRAC

    Note:  These functions are supported in the most recent versions.  Older versions may not support a specific function

4. Using LINK=

   Functions utilizing the LINK= must:

   • include all filters within the function    OR...
   • if using the NL("Link) function within a replicating function [ NL(Rows) or NL(Columns) ] :
     • the NL("Link") must be on the same row as the replicating function  OR...
     • the NL("Link) must be referenced using Excel's absolute referencing ($)

    

   Supported Examples:

   NL("Rows","Sales Invoice Header","No.","Posting Date",">1/1/2009","LINK=","Sales Invoice Line","Document No.","=No.","Type","Item")

   {Why?  all filters reside within the function} 

   ---

   OR...

   

   {Why?  the LINK= filter in cell B5 includes an absolute cell reference to the NL("Link") function in cell C3}

   ---

   OR...

   

   {Why?  Even though the cell reference "C5" is not absolute, cell C5 is contained within the replication area}

    

   Unsupported Example:

   

   {Why?  the LINK= filter in cell B4 includes a relative reference to the NL("Link") function which is outside the replicated area)

5. Function and Report Limitations

   Currently, there are some features that are not available for use with Jet Hub.

   The following data sources are not supported in Jet Hub:

   • Dynamics NAV 2009 and earlier (C/Front)

    

   Some function arguments are required to be constant.  This means that they must be either hard-coded in the formula or be absolute cell references to cells that are not Report Options.  These include:

   Function	Arguments that must be constant:
   NL	What FilterField
   NF	Field FlowFilterField
   NP	What Formula (must be a text string in the function)
   GL (Dynamics NAV)	What View Exclude Close
   GL (Dynamics GP)	Where What Include Unposted
   GL (JetBudgets)	What Include Unapproved

    

   Supported Examples:

   

   {constant - supported}

   
   
   

   {hard-coded cell reference - supported}

   
   

   Unsupported Example:

   
   

   {Why?  Cell references to report Options are not supported for these parameters}

    

   Pivot Table Limitations (and unsupported features):

   • OLAP-Backed Pivot Tables
   • Slicers
   • Conditional Formatting

   • Pivot Field Settings

     Setting	Unsupported Value
     Layout > Insert blank line after each item label	enabled
     Layout > Repeat Item Labels	enabled
     Layout > Show items with no data	enabled
     Layout > Include new items in manual filter	enabled

   • Pivot Value Field Settings

     • Show Data As:
       
       • Difference From
       • % Difference From
       • Rank largest to smallest
       • Rank smallest to largest
       • Running total in
       • index
     • Show data as "(next)" and "(previous)" options are not supported.

   • Calculated Items

   • Pivot Table Filters

     • Label Filters:
       • Between - wildcards are not supported.
       • Not Between - wildcards are not supported.
     • Value Filters:
       • Equals
       • Not Equals
       • Greater Than
       • Greater Than or Equal
       • Less Than
       • Less Than or Equal
       • Between
       • Not Between
       • Top 10
     • Report Filters

   • Pivot Table Options

     • Layout and format

       Setting	Unsupported Value
       Merge and center cells with labels	enabled
       Display fields in report filter area	Over, then Down
       Report filter fields per row|column	enabled
       For error values show	enabled
       Preserve cell formatting on update	disabled

     • Totals and Filters

       Setting	Unsupported Value
       Allow multiple filters per field	enabled
       Use Custom Lists when sorting	disabled
       Subtotal filtered page items (only available for pivot tables based on an OLAP data source supporting MXD express subselect syntax)	disabled (default)

     • Display

       Setting	Unsupported Value
       Show contextual tooltips	disabled
       Display field captions and filter dropdowns	disabled
       Classic PivotTable layout	enabled
       Show the Values row	enabled
       Field List	Sort A to Z
       PivotTable Options > Display > "Show items with no data on rows"	enabled
       PivotTable Options > Display > "Show items with no data on columns"	enabled
       Show properties in tool-tips	disabled (default)
       Display item labels when no fields are in the values area (only applies to pivot tables created using Excel 2003 or earlier)	enabled (default)

     • Data

       Setting	Unsupported Value
       Save source data with file	disabled
       Enable show details	disabled
       Refresh data when opening the file	enabled
       Retain items deleted from the data source > Number of items to retain per field	None Max

    

   Pivot Table Considerations:

   • Floating-Point Arithmetic

     When values in Excel sum to zero they will often be displayed as a very small value in scientific format (i.e. 163709E-10).  This is due to the precision with which computers can store fractional values and is documented by Microsoft as expected Excel behavior here.

     Reports run in the Jet Hub are affected by the same issue, however small changes in the precision that fractional values are stored that may cause the results to differ slightly from Excel's values.

     For example, Excel may produce a sum of 1.63709E-10, while the Jet Hub value is -7.6761E-10.  These values are both effectively zero (0.000000000163709046319127 and -0.000000000767613528296351, respectively) and should be treated as such because they are likely beyond the significant figures of the values being operated upon.

   • Filters

     Filtering field values will correctly filter data out of a report but may leave rows or columns whose only data was hidden by the deselected values.

     For example, if we hide "Bicycle" from the "Description" field and another field value that intersected with that the Description only had bicycle data in it, the other field value may still be present even though Excel does not show it.  The Bicycle data will not be shown.
     .

6. The following functions and report features are not currently supported in Jet Hub:

   • ShowQuery=
   • Stored User Data
   • Table Cache Optimization
   • External workbook connections (e.g. OLAP Pivot Tables) cannot be refreshed from Excel online.
   • External workbook connections to other workbooks (Excel > Data > Edit Links) cannot be refreshed in Jet Hub.
   • Use of the VALID and TOOLTIP keywords with the Report Options feature.
   • Using NL("Picture") to retrieve an image from a file.
   • Sparkline Graphs