DAXReliabilityCritical
Measure referencing itself
"Measure referencing itself" is one of the reliability checks Auditabi runs on a Power BI semantic model. n measure(s) reference their own name. It is a critical finding: it breaks refresh, returns wrong numbers or exposes data, so it should be fixed before publishing. Break the cycle: compute the intermediate value in a variable or a separate measure.
What is detected
n measure(s) reference their own name. DAX has no recursion: the model fails to refresh or the measure errors in every visual.
Why it matters
Breaks refresh, returns wrong numbers, or exposes data. Fix before publishing.
How to fix it
Break the cycle: compute the intermediate value in a variable or a separate measure.
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More DAX checks
- Arithmetic or comparison on a measure that returns text
- Measure returning text in one branch and a number in another
- Share denominator clears a fact-table column instead of the dimension
- "Previous period" window overlaps the current one
- Percentage label built without ×100
- Percentages and amounts summed together