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Hi,
I'm setting our a Dataflow in our "Test Corporate Insights" workspace.
This dataflow includes 3 Entities.
In the "Editor", the Entities are identified as Standard (there is no lightning bolt icon over any).
In the Workspace settings, I cannot Refresh my Dataflow, because I see the notification: This dataflow contains computed entities, which require Premium to refresh. To enable refresh, upgrade this workspace to Premium capacity.
There is a lightning bolt logo over my "New Business Opportunities" entity. But I think it is Standard, not Calculated.
Is there a step within my entity that is not supported?
Thanks,
James Russell
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Hi @Anonymous ,
Did you merge or appned your tables in dataflow? As the online document, we can only use computed entities on Power BI Premium.
Hi @Anonymous
Did you ever figure out what was causing this to happen? We have the same problem.
Thanks,
Ed
Think I figured out the issue - sometimes operations which do result in computed entities don't show the lightning bolt on the icon in the Query Editor - seems like a bug: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Computed-entities-in-Dataflows-not-showing-lightning-bolt/id....
Hope this helps,
Ed
Hi @Anonymous ,
Did you merge or appned your tables in dataflow? As the online document, we can only use computed entities on Power BI Premium.
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