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Anonymous
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2 Central Tables - Circular reference / Ambiguity between tables

Hi Community

 

I have 2 tables both with different Supplier Data (1 = Finance, 2 = Performance Data).

 

I am trying to display spend with supplier and overall score as a table (although I also wish to display in a bubble chart).

 

I am unable to join the 2 sets of data as there is Ambiguity between tables (Circular reference) when I try and get both tables to reference the common tables (Date and Supplier Names)

 

I believe i may need to create a calculated table to acheive this, but are struggling.

 

They share the following tables which are causing the circular reference

  • Date
  • Supplier names

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Both tables have individual measures (below)

Finance = Weighted calucaltion 

 

Payment Measure = SUMX ( VALUES ( 'Supplier Split'[Supplier Name]),
calculate(
    sum(Finance[Payment Amount])*
        min('Supplier Split'[Weighting 1])
        
        )
)

 

 

Performance Data = Average Score By Group

 

Average of CPF_Score average per Theme (C) = 
AVERAGEX(
	KEEPFILTERS(VALUES('MetricMapping - Contract Status'[Theme (C)])),
	CALCULATE(AVERAGE('Combined Data'[CPF_Score]))
)

 

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous,

I'd like to suggest you take a look at the following blog to know how to avoid this issue when you use multiple calculate fields:

Avoiding circular dependency errors in DAX 

BTW, you can also check the below link about SSAS tabular model relationship design. (power bi data stored in data model with AS tabular format)

Relationships in analysis services tabular models 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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