Stop PBI Desktop from recreating relationships initially deleted by user

Hello, I am seeing some behaviour in Power BI which i believe should not be the case. It is relating to inactive relationships being auto-created after they have been deleted, in Power BI De...

Data Modeling

v-lili6-msft

Community Support

5 years ago

Please disable all these three options and then try it again.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-create-and-manage-relationships#automatic-relationship-updates

i have tested this on my side, it works well, and my power bi desktop verson is: 2.88.1385.0 64-bit (December 2020)

Regards,

Lin

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