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- 1 year ago
Hi zameenakarmali ,
Thanks for the clarification.
The reason you are seeing duplicate tables and multiple relationships with Dim_Date is because each of your files is being loaded as a separate query. To avoid this, instead of connecting to each file, you can connect to the parent folder and append all files into a single fact table in Power Query. While doing this you can add a custom column to identify whether the data came from the weekly, monthly, or live folder. This way you only need one relationship to Dim_Date, and you can use that new column in your report to switch between weekly, monthly, and live views.
Here is the documentation on combining files from a folder: Combine files (binaries) in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
You may also find it useful to check these similar community discussions that go through the same type of scenario:Solved: Power BI: How to Combine Multiple Excel Files from... - Microsoft Fabric Community
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Hope this helps. Please reach out for further assistance.
Thank you.
Also thanks to Mauro89 and srlabhe for addressing this earlier and for valuable guidance.
- 1 year ago
Hi zameenakarmali ,
Just wanted to check if the response provided was helpful. If further assistance is needed, please reach out.
Thank you.
Hey,
Yes I have multiples excel files that are loaded.,
Currently I have a folder saved as monthly which lists all the Files as 202507, 202508 etc.
I have a weekly folder that saves the files under a folder for each month and the files are saved as WE 08 08 25 ...
I then have a live version of the file
In my dashboard there is a monthly/ weekly and live view so I need to connect to all the files.
can you let me know if this can be done with a better solution
You can load folder and try to append files , not sure if that works