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bilingual
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3 years ago

Best Practice? - to recycle calculated fields in multiple Power BI reports

Hi everybody,  please tell me your best practices of using identical calculation in mutilple Power BI reports from Excel source? ''   I can off course duplicate the PoweBI report, but if i need to ...
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Idrissshatila
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3 years ago

Hello bilingual ,

You could import the data and make the measure in one pbix file and use this file as a datasource to build another power bi reports, thus when you change a measure in this datasource file it will impact all the other connected reports.

 

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    bilingual
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    3 years ago

    Thanks a lot, i tried it and it looks promising.

     

    However i can not make the dataset update with new data from the linked Excel files, do you know how to do so?