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ceciliam2
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Selectcolumns not working properly

Hi guys,

 

This problem has been puzzled me for a couple days and I didn't find similar post here or anywhere. So I decided to post myself. 

I want to re-order a dax table's columns, but selectcolumns doesn't retrun columns in the order I set. WHY is it acting like this? Has anyone run into the same problem before? 

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Thanks!

Cecilia 

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amitchandak
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@ceciliam2 , Take out the script(dax code), Drop the table, create again, and try. if you change the script after the table is created it does not follow the order

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amitchandak
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@ceciliam2 , Take out the script(dax code), Drop the table, create again, and try. if you change the script after the table is created it does not follow the order

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thanks amit. it worked. unfortunately i had to rewrite all the measures and relink relationships after i drop the dax table in my live model. I wonder why selectcolumns works like this, or maybe it's a bug that can be fixed? 🙂 

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