PowerBI Relationships not responding

[nataliesmiy1357]

Hello - I am having an issue with my report not responding to filters correctly, and I believe it is a relationship issue.

here are the relationships that I have:  

Downtime Report [ Date] : OR Report [DATE]        This is a many to many relationship.

Downtime Report [Plant and Line] : OR Report [ Merged]         This is also a many to many relationship, but not active..

Both of these tables have the same dates and names of the plants.  Not sure how to make both relationships active..

when I put a filter of OR Report [Merge], and then put in information from the Downtime Report table, they are not connected.

Thanks in advance for all your help

[gmsamborn · Accepted solution]

Hi @nataliesmiy1357 

I would get rid of the existing relationships and build a star-schema by adding a Date dimension as well as another dimension based on Plant & Line.

After creating 1:* relationships between the dimension tables and the fact table, you will be able to slice by date (and date table columns) and/or 'Plant & Line'.

Power BI and the tabular model are designed to be used with a star-schema.

To me, it seems like you are trying to swim upstream.

[Kaviraj11]

To make any relationship which are not active, you can utilize the DAX Function 'USERELATIONSHIP' in your measure

USERELATIONSHIP function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn