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purpletiger
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Date Table Circular Reference w Holiday Table

I am trying to add a holiday table to my Power BI model to calculate working days. Right now I only have two tables, the Date Table which I created using the  Function "DateTable = calendarauto()". The Holiday Table is simply hardcoded reference table. When I attemp to connect the two in an effort to calculate workdays, I get an error regarding Circular Reference. Can someone please help?

 

Thank you, this is really baffling me. 

 

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MattAllington
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What do you mean “hard coded ref table”?  Personally I never create date tables in Power Pivot. How about using power query as per my article here https://exceleratorbi.com.au/build-reusable-calendar-table-power-query/



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
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@MattAllington

 

I am also getting the same issue. In my case, the table is a transaction table with transaction dates and amount fields. The Dates table is created in Power BI desktop using the CALENDARAUTO function. This is also marked as a DateTable. But when I try to create a relationship between the [transaction date] field in the transaction table and the [date] field in the Date table, the circular reference error occurs.

 

The CALENDARAUTO fucntion is used / preferred to create the date table as this dynamically adjust the calendar table based on the minimum and maximum dates in the data model.

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