DaveG on 09 Jan 2018 10:55:44
Anyone who uses PowerBI long enough has had a PBIX with 50-60 measures and it has become time consuming and tedious to mantain. In Excel you can do a quick find/replace to edit several formulas - in PowerBI you need to select each one individually. An "excel-like" interface for editing measures would save a lot of time! This would take PowerBI to the next level regarding productivity. I've prepared a mockup for this as well as a DAX Editor. Let me know what you think.
Mockup: https://i.imgur.com/z6TBOQb.png?1
Administrator on 20 Aug 2020 01:21:25
Checking with Will Thompson and moving status to backlog
- Comments (115)
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Would be so useful to be able to list which measures utilise a specific field. Further being able to list unused fields would be great. Thank you.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Great idea, should have already been a feature!
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
We are still hoping...
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
There is an APP named PMM (Power Mesures Manager) that dose just this
in this link you can read all bout it and download the App for free
https://powermeasuresm.wixsite.com/pm-m
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Over a year ago I wrote this, and still there is no progress:
We really need this feature. It is painstaking to have to go through each measure and column one by one, and wait for PowerBI to process changes. In addition, I have to cleanup and reverse engineer many other reports, which often look like spaghetti code, and it's very difficult to click through each. It would save me a ton of time and effort to bulk edit, and see all calc columns and measures in a single window.
I would compare the current setup like writing code, and processing changes after each semicolon, rather than when I compile and execute. I know how all of the columns and measures interact, and how to debug any issues.
Import and export for calc columns and measures would be amazing. Export to something a text editor could open as well, like csv, json, or maybe even excel.
This would allow the group of analysts I work with to easily share standardized measures.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Wouldn't if be great if you could write plugin's for Power BI and open up the eco system to other developers. You would get so much more traction.
Dave's design is great. Please improve this area. I use Tabular Editor a lot with SASS Tabular and it's is a much better editing experience than Power BI.
Issues for me.
The Measure editing is very slow and cumbersome and doesn't always accept your edits or new measures.
Set formatting, home table, folder, hidden in one place.
Duplicate / copy & paste measures.
Copy & paste measures across to a different pbix.
Search or filter measures.
Visualise / List dependencies.
Import/export all measures for documentation purposes or transfer to pbix - Although some of this can be done in DAX Editor.
Format the DAX statement.
Refactor the DAX statement with performance improvement suggestions.
Hover over a dependant measure for > 1 sec show's pop-up code view of measure.
Snippet manager that you can store your own measure snippets on a folder.aka Regdate SQL Prompt snippets.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Any chance you can include a view that shows which visuals a measure is used in?
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
A M A Z I N G.
And solves so many annoyances, adds so many features, and it's literally just some UI/UX implementation. CRITICALLY REQIUIRED.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
This is absolutely essential. Any update on ETA?
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
There is a new app named PMM (Power Mesures Manager) that dose just this
in this link you can read all bout it and download the App for free
https://powermeasuresm.wixsite.com/pm-m