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walkery's avatar
walkery
Helper I
8 years ago
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Dividing Measure Calculation by Column from another table

Hi All,    I have 2 tables in my report, Table A has 3 columns: Month, Office, OfficeCommission and Table B has 3 columns: Month, Office, OfficeRevenue. What I'd like to do is to divide office comm...
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  • MFelix's avatar
    MFelix
    8 years ago

    Hi walkery,

     

    If you are using the Direct Query you cannot create new tables directly check the Using DirectQuery in PowerBI link that as the complete details and limitations.

     

    Regarding your second question there is a relationship between both dimension tables and the main tables, then I use the dimension tables on the visuals to create context.

     

    Regards,

    MFelix

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

Ah DirectQuery lmitations... Try checking the "Allow unrestricted measures in DirectQuery mode" box in Options.

 

walkery's avatar
walkery
Helper I
8 years ago

Thanks Anonymous. That worked with not getting the error but the new measure is still just returning blank values. Do I have to have my data structured in any specifc way to get the measure to return actual values?