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jsmn
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5 years ago
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All Measure Formatting Lost with Direct Connect to PBI Dataset

Hello,   I've created a new report with a direct connection to an existing PowerBI dataset. Upon copying/pasting visuals between reports I noticed that all of the measure formatting was lost. This ...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi  jsmn  ,

     

    Live connection connection mode cannot add the data source. You can add this new datasource that needs to be added to the previous datasource to form a new datasource, so that the measure will not be lost.

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi  jsmn  ,

 

Live connection connection mode cannot add the data source. You can add this new datasource that needs to be added to the previous datasource to form a new datasource, so that the measure will not be lost.

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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jsmn
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5 years ago

Thank you! Unfortunately, that won't work for our use case. We have a "master" data source for all of our clients, but the secondary datasets are client-specific and very large. We wouldn't be able to pull all of them into one data source (without upgrading to premium, at least).