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Composite Model - Keep Cooperate hidden fields, hidden
Do you want the bad news, or the bad news? Hidded fields from someone else's dataset aren't actually hidden. They will be listed in the "Sort by column" dialog, and they can be manually used in measures and calculated columns.
Security by obscurity does not work. If you don't want "them" to see these columns, don't include these columns in your data.
Do you want the bad news, or the bad news? Hidded fields from someone else's dataset aren't actually hidden. They will be listed in the "Sort by column" dialog, and they can be manually used in measures and calculated columns.
Security by obscurity does not work. If you don't want "them" to see these columns, don't include these columns in your data.
Thank you for the answer.
It is however not due to security that we from the coorperate BI side want to hide the fields. It is basically just to make it as user friendly for the business as possible. There is no reason why they should be confused by hidden measures, that are only used as a calculation-step for another DAX measure. Also, if they are not described in the documentation - since they are not able to see the underlying DAX code.
