Where to create a new measure?

[sophie63]

Hi everyone,

I am a beginner with POWER BI and I am trying to understand all the concepts and how the tool is working. I have several different tables in my model, each of them linked by a relationship. And I would like to create a report using differents colums in each of the different tables. Inside this report I am creating measures to do calculation between all those columns. However I don't know how to structure the whole thing, where should I create the measures? In which table? In a new calculated table? Which difference does it make?

See below, I created my measures in the Business Units Table but I could have done it elsewhere...

Thanks for helping!

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

This is really a preference on your part, measures can be created in any table. Some people tend to create them in the primary fact table that the measure deals with, other people create a new table just for measures. Because of how measures work, it really does not matter what table you create them in.