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Advocate ICopying a data table? I see the copy function when I right click on a table but how do I paste this?
Does anyone know definitively whether this is possible?
If it isn't possible to paste a table, then what is the point of the "Copy Table" menu item? Is this a feature that was accidentally left unfinished?
UPDATE: Ok, the purpose of that is so you can paste into an external app like Excel.
The only way to reuse a DAX based table, and preserve post creation configuration like setting of sort columns, formats, etc is to use the PBIX file as a starting point for all new projects. If you've started without doing that, you can create a new table in the destination and paste in the DAX, but you'll have to redo those customization tasks.
Helper IIDoes anyone know definitively whether this is possible?
If it isn't possible to paste a table, then what is the point of the "Copy Table" menu item? Is this a feature that was accidentally left unfinished?
UPDATE: Ok, the purpose of that is so you can paste into an external app like Excel.
The only way to reuse a DAX based table, and preserve post creation configuration like setting of sort columns, formats, etc is to use the PBIX file as a starting point for all new projects. If you've started without doing that, you can create a new table in the destination and paste in the DAX, but you'll have to redo those customization tasks.
If the table is small enough (not more than 3000 cells) you can paste it in the Enter Data tool of PQE. If your table has more cells the answer on creating a new table in PQE with a blank source and typing the table name as a query seems to be a better approach than a copy from the model and paste into PQE. I can see the use case for using either within PBI or externally.