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Set up initial table for tabular model measurements

Set up initial table for tabular model measurements - Power BI Desktop Tutorial

From the course: Essential Power BI (Beta)

Set up initial table for tabular model measurements

- [Tutor] In the Tabular model, measures belong to the model and can be assigned to any table. That's why when using a measure in new DAX expressions, we don't include the name of the table it's currently in. The reason, for a measure to be associated with one table or another. It is purely aesthetic, usually decided by the end user of the report. When you select a measure, the Measurement Tools menu is activated in the Structure Group, we can see the initial table property. By expanding, we can change this value from the Customer's Table to the Sales Table, and we move the measure from one table to the other, if the goal is to rearrange. More than one measure, the recommendations move to the model view, select all the measures that you want to move, and in a single step from the Fields panel, we can transfer all these measures from the Customer's Table to the Sales Table. This action can only be performed in the Model view. We already have all the measures here. If in the future you…

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