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Multiple relations support for Power BI datasets

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Andrzej Ciupinski on 25 Jul 2023 10:15:32

Enabling Power BI to use multiple relations in a dataset to be able to improve filtering and enable complex relationship models.

It does not have to be multiple relationships between 2 tables, but at least enabling several relationship paths.


Currently when You have a simple relation like:

Dates --> Maintenance Requests
Dates --> Spare Part Consumption
Plants --> Maintenance Requests
Plants --> Spare Part Consumption
Spare Part Consumption --> Maintenance Requests (i.e. spare part usage might be connected with maintenance requests)

there is no way to make any sensible matching / filtering. Although there are some workarounds for that, it odes not allow You anything close to full functionality.


I find it the biggest gap in Power Bi data model and the biggest opportunity for improvement.