Error 'Couldn't load the data for this visual' w/ Measures from DirectQuery for SAP BW (Bex Query)

Greetings, I'm having trouble loading my report measures when using DirectQuery for SAP BW on Power BI cloud service. Here is the error message: "Couldn't load the data for this visual M...

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9 years ago

I have exact same issue.

On Power BI Desktop everything works fine but on published report visuals can not be displayed with error

"...Cannot find data source '' in function 'EXTERNALEXPRESSION'...."

Problems are with measures (Key Figures) because slicers are displayed with data as it should be.

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