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Schema Change - Now What? Please Help!

I needed to remove a field from my dataset (source).  

 

Power BI is failing to Refresh, obviously, because it is looking for this particular column - now no longer in the dataset.

 

Is there anyway through the Query Editor, to modify it looking for this particular column - and allow the refresh to continue?  The dataset remains the same, with the exception of this removed column.

 

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Thanks!

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v-yuta-msft
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Hi irnm8dn,

 

Click Advanced Editor and modify the M code in it. If the column [Creative size] name has been changed in your data source, you should also modify the column name in Advanced Editor.

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

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v-yuta-msft
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Community Support

Hi irnm8dn,

 

Click Advanced Editor and modify the M code in it. If the column [Creative size] name has been changed in your data source, you should also modify the column name in Advanced Editor.

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

Stachu
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Community Champion

you need to edit the steps that refer to that Column, and remove the references from Syntax - e.g. Changing Type, Reordering, Renaming, Unpivoting, Applying filters, etc.



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