CDS Relationships not showing in Power BI

[Hilko]

Hi,

I created a few custom data entities in my CDS from a SQL Database. It is the Northwind sample database. In CDS I created a few custom relationships between entities, like between 'Order Details' and 'Product'. It is a one-to-many relationship (see attachment).

When creating a Power BI file of the CDS, this relationship does not come through into my Power BI file... Some other relationships do, but several of the custom ones don't. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your advice.

Regards,

Hilko

[Drrickryp · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hilko 

I have no experience with BI but did you use the Northwind Traders database that can be downloaded and instantiated in CDS?  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/northwind-install .  That one already has the relationships defined correctly.

[EricRegnier · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hilko,

If you open the solution in classic interface, by clicking the "Switch to Classic" button. Open the respective relationship and check the "Searchable" property is set to "yes".

Hope this helps!

[packnology]

Hi @EricRegnier ,

Thanks for your post. Is the "Classic View" still available in Power Apps? I have the same problem as @Hilko and when I connect the CDS in PowerBI the relationships don't come through, but I don't know how to get to the form in your example.

Thanks,

Greg

[Davidew]

I have the same problem. I create the relationships in Dataverse and I can't see them in power BI. Have you found a solution? I also read the answers below but they didn't workd.

[EricRegnier]

Hi @Davidew,

How did you create the relationship in Dataverse, with Lookup columns? If so, Power BI should automatically detect those relationships. My previous post with the screenshot is to explain how to show the relationship within Power Apps, not Power BI. Here's an example of PowerBI detecting the relationship, I used Direct query with no transforms: