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Advocate IIBest Way for work with Multiple Fact Tables
Impactful IndividualI'm not sure how you are hitting an issue with circular references, can you post some more specific detail on your model?
Ensure you have common links from the fact tables to the dimension tables you are using and then make 100% sure you are using the dimension tables to populate rows, columns and slicers etc
Using a link table in PBI is not best practice and will fall over if it results in a many to many join (all joins need to be 1 to many)
If you need to join fact and dimension tables on multiple fields (i.e. more than one link between each pair) then you will have to create a compound link field as PBI will only accept 1 active link at a time. For example you could merge "year" and "department" fields into a single field and link on that.
The current model I'm working on has 4 fact tables and 8 dimensions, I have not hit any issues so far
Advocate IIitchyeyeballs the problem isn't to join fact and dimension tables on multiple fields, as this is solved easily by concatenating the fields, the issue is when there are two or more fact tables that need to join to several dimension tables in common, becasue this generate some inactive relationships, causes to the circular reference. This diagram illustrates more or less what I say