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101Mathew
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3 months ago
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Direct Lake Model - Calculated Column/Tables

Hi all, The latest April ’26 update highlighted a major item for anyone working with Direct Lake models — the ability to create calculated columns and calculated tables that reference Direct Lake fi...
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  • v-achippa's avatar
    v-achippa
    3 months ago

    Hi 101Mathew,

     

    Yes, currently this feature is only available in power bi desktop(preview) and is not supported for editing in the service yet.

    So any calculated columns/tables for Direct Lake need to be created in desktop and then published, there is no live edit option in the service now. Since it is still rolling out in preview, this behaviour can be expected.

    Please refer below documentation:

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-april-2026-feature-summary/

     

    Thanks and regards,

    Anjan Kumar Chippa

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acodato
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1 month ago

I don't think this is a Power BI desktop feature to enable. It has to be enabled somewhere else, because I can create calculated columns in Tabular Editor 3 pointing to a Fabric Semantic Model but when saving it error out saying remove column. So it must be enabled at the model level.