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bhanu431
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circular dependency detected

I have a report in which i have created a dependency for mainting the order. Let's Assume

I have Input data of table BSE Index with column Name Capital Markets in order

                                        BSC Bankex

                                        BSC Auto

                                        BSC Capital goods

The required order is BSC Auto

                                 BSC Bankex

                                 BSC Capital goods

To get data in this order I created a new table as (BSE Index order) and maintained relationship on it.

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Pass three Months every refresh is going fine. But, from the morning i was getting an error message on App only

The refresh happining properly on PowerBI Desktop but the refresh happening failing on powerBI (app/site).

---------Error Message------------------------

 Last refresh failed: Mon Oct 24 2016 13:27:33 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
There was an error when processing the data in the dataset.
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Processing error:A circular dependency was detected: BSEIndex[Capital Markets], BSEIndex[Order], c33eabb6-47dc-49ea-aac9-1a6a1c460dc4, BSEIndex[Capital Markets].
Cluster URI:WABI-WEST-US-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Activity ID:691c69e9-c035-3195-8444-77f7972f7715
Request ID:55f6cc95-7aee-2f67-304a-31b09885a2cd
Time:

2016-10-24 07:57:33Z

 

 

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ankitpatira
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@bhanu431 Try chaning cross-filter direction of the active relationships from 'Both' to 'Single' and that should make this error disappear.

Thanks Antik,

 

I tried this as well, it is not accepting single relationship between th tables. Any other Suggestion?

 

MattAllington
Community Champion
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You seem to have a 1 to 1 relationship plus no other relationships. Is it possible that one of your tables now contains duplicate values?  Try deleting the relationship, then refresh, rejoin the tables and see what happens. 



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

Thanks Matt

 

I have deleted the relationships and configured again, still the issue remains. Any other suggestion please

Sorry to be pedantic. Do you delete, refresh all queries then recreate the relationships?  Or did you delete, recreate and then refresh. You should do the former. 



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

I deleted relationship then refreshed and then recreated as you said previously. Still nothing going in my way.

The refresh is happenig properly on PowerBI Desktop, the refresh is failing on powerBI app

When you say refresh is failing in the App, is that the cloud service? Do other refreshes for other datasets in the cloud work?  eg do you have a gateway installed?  



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

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