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RJ
Resolver II
10 years ago

Get data from another power BI Table / File

Hi   Load data from another power BI table / File   Can this be done. And if so how   (Or is it possible to save a table in a fast upload mode).     Thanks
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ALeef
Resolver II
10 years ago

I haven't found a way to copy tables yet.  Right Click > Copy Table makes a dupicate of the data in the table, but not the definitions.

 

I'd be interested in this as well.  I suppose you could write a long CALCULATETABLE with ADDCOLUMNs everywhere and formulas - but that seems onerous.

 

Wonder if you can connect and pull data from multiple datasets - kind of make different data marts from one source "Cube"?

  • RJ's avatar
    RJ
    Resolver II
    10 years ago

    ALeef

     

    Yeah I can't see how its done

     

    This would be useful for incremental loading. So one Power BI App file  would be set up to incremental load say tables from an ERP system. And then the other App files would access this one App File

     

    I might make a suggested how to improve at some point.

    • amien's avatar
      amien
      Helper V
      10 years ago

      Anyone did this? I would be nice to centralize translation within one pbix. Instead of have the same logic in several pbix files. This is not very maintanable.

       

      Or is it perhaps possible to save the table after the transactions into a seperate file? and load this file in another pbix?

      • WillT's avatar
        WillT
        Community Admin
        10 years ago

        I suggested this on another thread: you could use Power Query to do the transformations centrally and load the data into the Excel worksheet. Then your PBIX files can load the data from there to do the modelling/reporting you need.

         

        Thanks

        Will