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Meeskass
Helper I
Helper I

Unable to delete measures after changing data source location

‎12-20-2022 03:55 PM

Hi everyone!

 

I am facing an annoying bug/issue.

Previously I had developed a PBI report, with some measures here and there. 

At one point, it was necessary to switch from the testing dataset to the PBI dataset, but not all the measures were aligned.

Now I am unable to delete some of the measures that do not work anymore (See screenshot).

When I press on the 'three dots' for more options, it simply displays "Something went wrong" error.
What to do? Thansk!!!

 

Pictures:

Meeskass_0-1671580460365.pngMeasures with errors. Cannot be opened, viewed, edited, deleted. 

 

Error message:

Meeskass_1-1671580519714.png

 

 

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Meeskass
Helper I
Helper I
In response to Anonymous

‎12-21-2022 02:26 PM

Yes exactly!

And I did find a solution just a couple of minutes ago.

It might be a bug inside Power BI or just my own low level of brain capacity hah

The scenario was that the PBI report had some measures with the same name as the new Live PBI dataset that I connected to. This led to having measures with duplicate names and PBI doesn't like that, which resulted in one of those measures to be 'broken' as on the picture. 
Even though I was not able to delete the broken measures directly, as it simply gave me an error, I was still able to rename the broken measures and then delete them 🙂

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