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    Automating Formatting of DAX formulas

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    Erik on 13 Apr 2016 20:58:35

    The website DAXFORMATTER.COM is giving a very good layout of DAX formulas. It would be great if this feature could be built into the query editor of PowerBI rather than me coping and pasting every formula between the 2 systems

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    9ac9f602 44da-49e1-9a1b-77cfc90cab18 on 10 Jul 2020 17:20:48

    RE: Automating Formatting of DAX formulas

    Agreed. Auto-formatting is already included in the PowerApps editor. I believe it would help so much bringing it to PBI.

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    9fad4c0d be3b-45c1-bfc7-bafd29fa4374 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:29

    RE: Automating Formatting of DAX formulas

    Yes, this should become build in feature in PB Desktop

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    e80fb352 81f0-43ac-830e-5edaacffb44b on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:03

    RE: Automating Formatting of DAX formulas

    Yup, that would be the day when PBI can really be more helpful to us who are just starting. As it is, DAX is very challenging mentally, so a little help in terms of formatting would certainly go a long way to understanding DAX better. Many start-up users make the mistakes mostly on the opening of the parenthetical statement "(" and closing ")" and manually doing ocular inspection wher they have missed out normally either an opening or closing parenthetical statements (not to mention the "," commas also).