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If you are looking to create many-to-many relationships based models in PowerPivot and in BISM Tabular, probably one day you will be interested in using them with Power View (formerly codename “Crescent”). There is a very bad news for you: it appears that, at least in its first release, Power View will not support this scenario, showing a behavior that (and this really worries me) is very different from Excel.
The description of the issue is in this connect item: please vote it! This is going to seriously impact usability of many models from Crescent. I understand the reason of this choice (avoiding selection that doesn’t make sense) but I would like whether there was a way to disable this automatic hiding feature in particular conditions (that might be the routine for a certain data models).
I will investigate for some workaround, but many votes to this issue may raise its priority in Redmond.
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Marco Russo is a consultant, writer and trainer specialized in Business Intelligence with Microsoft technologies. He runs the SQLBI.COM website, which is dedicated to distribute resources useful for BI developers, like Integration Services components, Analysis Services models, tools, technical information and so on. Marco is certified as MCT, MCDBA, MCSD.NET, MCSA, MCSE+I.