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6 years ago

Dataflow from a database in Power Bi Service

Hello!    Is it possible to grab measures/tables from a Database (in Power BI Service) and create a Dataflow?    The purpose of this is to be able to use this same measures/tables in other databa...
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6 years ago

Thank you.

 

The problem with this is that you can connect two different datasets, and my goal is to find a way to re-use measures across different datasets.

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6 years ago

Well, a measure will be tied to a field in a table.  If you have a measure it can't be used in a DIFFERENT dataset because I am assuming that the table and field name will be different.  So, I am thinking you could make the measure(s) for each dataset and save them that way.  You would have to do the manual copy/paste to use the exact same measure in a different dataset.

 

I am wondering if you could make a template with measures in it and then the instructions for everybody to use them would be to grab that template and then to immediately connect it to the correct dataset.

 

I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would mark this as a solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!