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Ray_Brosius
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5 years ago
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Building a Table Visual - error "Can't determine relationships between the fields"

I have what I feel like is a stupid question.  I've been using Power BI for several years and it seems like I run into this problem and can't figure it out.. or at least remember. I have these three...
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  • Ray_Brosius's avatar
    Ray_Brosius
    5 years ago

    I think I understand the nature of the problem....

    The Deals can have more than one Company.. and the Deals can have more than one Status.

    When trying to put these together  liek below

    Deal, Company(s), Status(es)

     

    Power BI does not know how to list these in one Table.. in that for every Deal -> company relationship does it go and get every Deal-Status combination.. the Status and Company while related to a single Deal ... there is no relationship between the Company and Status...  showing that in a single table does not make logical sense...

     

     

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Ashish_Mathur
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5 years ago

Hi,

In a normal data model, the columns that you want to run calculations on are usually the fact tables (Many side of the relationship) but in yours the Deals table is the dimension table (one side of the relationship).