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Microsoft EmployeeShare your thoughts on DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview)
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I have a model + thin report and need to rename tables from data source, but this breaks the thin report.
How can I update table names referenced in the report?
- jeroenterheerdt
have you tried opening the report in Desktop and selecting Refresh?
Yes, it refreshes the dataset and shows new table names but that's the problem... all visuals are bronken because are using old tables fields.
Then only solution I got is to manually edit each report pbix Layout file, but it's not very convenient.
For anyone searching, this (dangerous) solution is described here:
I created an Idea to address this question, can you help voting?
Renaming dataset measures can't break client reports (change reference from name to ID)
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=649ec802-682b-ec11-b76a-281878e608e9