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butterscotch
Helper II
2 years ago
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Issue with Referencing Table and Including Calculated Columns

Hello Power BI community, I'm encountering an issue when attempting to create a reference to an existing table, table1, in Power BI. In the process of creating the reference, I noticed that while th...
  • zenisekd's avatar
    zenisekd
    2 years ago

    Calculated columns in Dax are not visible in Power query. If you imagine a process of report creation in layers, then you have:

    1. Your source database

    2. Power query (M code)

    3. Desktop (Dax language).

    you can see the data processed only in the previous layers. In your database you dont see added columns in Desktop or Power Query as well as in PQ you dont see added columns by DAX language (unless you use a processed semantic model as adata source). But now we are talking about regular import of data.

     

    Kudos and Mark as reply appreciated.