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miriambb
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Mark as a data table

Hallo everyone

 

I am trying to mark a table as a data table, but I am getting these errors 

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Could you help me?

Thank you

Miriam

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tackytechtom
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Hi @miriambb ,

 

It seems like you are trying to mark a fact table with multiple occurences of the same date as a date table. Instead you should create a separate date dimension with one date per row (without gaps) which then should have a relationship to your received_at column. 

 

Here some links on how to create such a date dimension:

Create date tables in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

How to create a date table in Power BI in 2 simple steps - Kohera

 

Let me know if this helps 🙂

 

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tackytechtom
Super User
Super User

Hi @miriambb ,

 

It seems like you are trying to mark a fact table with multiple occurences of the same date as a date table. Instead you should create a separate date dimension with one date per row (without gaps) which then should have a relationship to your received_at column. 

 

Here some links on how to create such a date dimension:

Create date tables in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

How to create a date table in Power BI in 2 simple steps - Kohera

 

Let me know if this helps 🙂

 

/Tom
https://www.tackytech.blog/
https://www.instagram.com/tackytechtom/



Did I answer your question➡️ Please, mark my post as a solution ✔️

Also happily accepting Kudos 🙂

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#proudtobeasuperuser 

Hi @Anonymous,

 

thank you for your help!

I did create the table however, the relationship between my table and the new one with only the date is not working...  I am assuming the common fields across both tables is the dates ? also i am assuming there is no need to the table as a date table?

 

Thank you

Miriam

it worked 😄 thank you for your help!

Miriram

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