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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Organizing measures when using a shared dataset

Hello everyone,   I'm currently using a published Power BI dataset to create many reports. This dataset contains a measures empty table.   In the reports using the Power BI dataset, I create the ...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ，

    Sorry that I missed this important information: connect to a shared dataset. Since it connect to a shared dataset, it will be a live connection mode. And only report-level measures can be created, no calculated column and table can be created. Therefore, there is no way to create another measure table or folder...

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amitchandak
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5 years ago

Anonymous , If I got it correctly, You can create subfolder. But for that, you need to have access to the model view.

 

In the model view, you can select a few measures and under properties, you can give a subfolder name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oDIL8nbu0

 

But in live dataset, you might not get this view, check on right click in field in data or report view

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi amitchandak , I do have access to the model view but I'm not able to create folders or place measures into folders :

 

We can see that the Display folder is grayed out.

 

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    live report doesnt allow to create a folder for local measures. This is kinda trash from Microsof along with not creating calculated columns or groups