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Cannot save a query for live connection
I am building report based on Live data from my SQL Server's table, I imported a table which contains DateTimeOffset column and then added (in Power BI Desktop) a custom column by using this query: ...
AverageAsker pqian Although I never tried it yet the latest powerBI desktop supports calculated columns
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-latest-update/
As for the latest Power BI Desktop:
that link says that the following
DirectQuery – support for creating Calculated Columns
is supported in the version February 2016 Update (2.32.4307.362)
But I have a newer version and the problem still exists there so the release notes seem to be inaccurate.