Thanks Dmitry , Good to know this . If you come across any other information do add to this discussion , it will be helpful for other users in the forum looking for a solution to similar issue.
The joins seemed to be enabled once I did an extract and started a workbook on the extract rather than the published data source, so that might be a workaround for some
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