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SaganBigRedDog
Helper I
9 years ago

Renamed columns causing error

Hi,   We have a report the is pulled from SalesForce.  One column in this report was previously named "Sales Rep."  last week, we changed the wording to "Sales Representative" (only renamed it, did...
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Greg_Deckler's avatar
Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
9 years ago

That's really odd, renaming columns hasn't been an issue in Power BI for forever. Used to be really annoying. Where did you do the renaming, in Desktop or Query Editor? And you say that you tried renaming it back and it didn't fix the issue?

 

SaganBigRedDog's avatar
SaganBigRedDog
Helper I
9 years ago

Hi,

 

To clarify,  the renaming issue is stemming from a field that was renamed in Sales Force.  It seems like pBI is still looking for the old name of the column. To resolve, I renamed the column in PBI (to match the new Sales Force field name). This was done on the desktop version (where the error was received).  It did not work and is still searching for the old column name.

  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    9 years ago

    Hmmm. Yeah, I can see how that might be problematic. Are you able to trace back where the error is happening and perhaps change the formula? Distributed data governance is hard.

    • SaganBigRedDog's avatar
      SaganBigRedDog
      Helper I
      9 years ago

      Hm there isn't actually a formula that is being used.  It's not a calculated column.  It's the exact column that fed over from Sales Force.

      • Greg_Deckler's avatar
        Greg_Deckler
        Community Champion
        9 years ago

        OK, so are you using the Salesforce connector in the Desktop or Get Data from the Service?