In Power BI Power Query there is an option to enable or disable whether a table is loaded into the report. The option ‘Enable load’ can be found by right clicking on the table. Typically, by default, the load is already enabled.
There is also an option ‘Include in report refresh’ which lets a user stop a table from refreshing when they refresh the entire report. This maybe useful for static tables or tables that are large which take a long time to refresh and a user wants to concentrate on how other tables are refreshing.
Once a user disables the ‘Enable load’ option, the table name turns italic which is an easy way for users to determine whether a table will be loaded or not.
After applying these changes, no data has been loaded into the report.
To re-enable the load, jump back into Power Query, right click on the table and ‘Enable load’.
Finally, some scenarios where it might be useful to disable loading a table:
– Disable loading tables in Power Query that were only ever stepping stones to create other tables
– See how removing a table effects your report before deleting it
– Removing a table that might be required again in the future
