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
I absolutely love this idea and every day I find myself wishing the Measure editor was better in the ways that have been listed. I was just spending a fair amount of time yesterday in the Excel Name Manager and thought that the same type of tool would be great in PBI as well. Also, the current editor is so clunky, to have a Visual Studio style editor with line numbers and better controls over the size as I'm constantly fighting with it opening to nearly the full screen. I'd love to be able to drag the size to a sticky setting.
A large portion of the time developing PBI solutions is in the Measure editor and it really would be a huge efficiency gain to get a more robust editor. Thank You!!! and Please!!!
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
Absolutely a must
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
There are already some great comments on this, but just wanted to reiterate that having a pop up window with enhanced syntax highlighting, find and replace and the ability to enter and tab and all of that without the editor trying to exit would be amazing. Also would be really cool to have all the measures right over in a sidebar that would allow easily selecting and modifying other measures. Supports for repository / favorites / templates / snippets would also be a really cool feature.
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
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
It would also be nice to be able to easily copy measures from one report to another. I sometimes use the same measures over multiple reports. If there was a repository where measures could be copied/maintained, it would make it a lot easier to use many measures over many reports.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
This is so fundamental. Please do this Microsoft.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
9 months and no update for an idea that's #4 on the Top list with 4,000 votes. Idea submitted almost 2 years ago.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
The lack of centralized measure management a key gap in PBI’s ability to act as an enterprise semantic layer. Compare PBI to how Looker, Qlik, Domo, or GoodData treat this issue as a starting point. Get this right and people will be dropping their SAP BO tomorrow.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
This is one of most important things to have. Clients do not understand that we can't do bulk changes or migrations of measures.
RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor
When we work on copies of powerbi and there is minor change in dax but we don't have find replace command for it. It takes too long to go to each dax and make changes.