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JaviGolden
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Adding a Calculated Column in Semantic Model

I am trying to replicate a power bi "desktop" model in a fabric lakehouse.   I have a lakehouse with all the tables loaded and I've created a semantic model.   I need to create some calculated columns based on lookups to tables within the model, however, the "New Column" functionality is not available.  

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Am I trying to do this in the wrong place or is there something that I need to configure to allow this functionality?   

 

Thx!

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blopez11
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This is not currently supported for semantic models derived from a lakehouse.

Please see: Learn about Direct Lake in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

 

As an option, you can create them in your lakehouse.

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blopez11
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No, I don't believe you can use DAX.  I was thinking how ever you created your lakehouse, like if you used Gen2 dataflows, you could replicate the logic.

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blopez11
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No, I don't believe you can use DAX.  I was thinking how ever you created your lakehouse, like if you used Gen2 dataflows, you could replicate the logic.

blopez11
Super User
Super User

This is not currently supported for semantic models derived from a lakehouse.

Please see: Learn about Direct Lake in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

 

As an option, you can create them in your lakehouse.

Trying the same here, did you create the calculated columns using notebooks and add them to the lakehouse tables? Please let me know as i am currently trying to do the same. @blopez11 @JaviGolden 

Depending on my scenario, I used either dataflows gen2 or notebooks to create new lakehouse tables/columns.

Thx.  Can you use Dax in the lakehouse to do the lookups?   I've not been able to figure that out.  

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