Measures deleted when I change data source in my tables

[himanshu47]

Hi,

I have a Power BI desktop report which has twenty-five data tables (imported as a direct query from Azure SQL) and many measures created.
In a recent requirement, I had to limit the data coming in these tables.
I created views in SQL and thought about importing them as a direct query.
So, the logical thing to do was to change the data source in the Applied Steps of each table, which I did.
Now the new data in the tables have loaded successfully, but for some reason, the measures that were created in the report are no longer visible in Fields. I have used these measures in multiple visuals and these visuals are now broken. There's an option to fix the visuals known as 'Fix This' but it just deleted the measure from the values or the filters of that visual.
So, do I have to now create all these measures once again?
Is there a way to change the data source without affecting the measures?

Note: The data columns in the new source are the same as the previous source. However, the credentials used for the new data source are different from the previous one.

[himanshu47 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jay, 
Thanks for your reply.
The issue has been resolved now.
Earlier I was changing the credentials in the Data Source settings and then changing the data source in the tables.
Post that when I applied the changes the measures related to all the tables would disappear.
But now I changed the data source before changing the credentials, which kept the measures in the tables as they were.

So, yeah that worked out great for me.

Regards,
Himanshu

[v-jayw-msft]

Hi @himanshu47 ,

Do you mean that when you reload the table, the measures previously created under this table are gone?

Maybe you could try putting all the measures under a table that won't reload.

Please share more details if I misunderstood what you mean.

Best Regards,

Jay