Stephen Moir on 12 May 2015 12:26:52
At the moment if you're using the web based designer, you're unable to create custom measures. This currently means you have to go back to the source data to add in all possible measures
- Comments (18)
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
We have calculated measures in a Cube but we can´t use them in Power BI, is there a way?
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
Would really like to be able to create measures in the Web Power BI, and not need to install the Desktop.
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
Adding the ability to edit/see or create a calculated field in the Web App would be great.
I'm connecting directly to Project Online via odata feed, some field are already calculated and i want to see how they were calculated but unable to. I do have a desktop version but it doesn't help me in that regard.
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
This is a no brainer, since you would be able to use PBI Web to create real/quality reports on any data source. Thus using files in a cloud drive as datasource is way more userfriendly and flexible than the gateway system. And this feature would leverage this use case.
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
I’m regularly asked for reports to be adjusted with different percentages. Every time a new percentage calculation is requested from a different business sector I have to update/redesign a desktop report and republish to the web or make changes to SQL data warehouse. It would be much more efficient for the business if department users with web designer access apply a calculated measure for themselves; particularly as many of the queries are not of long term interest.
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
The ability to live more in the browser and less in desktop will allow a much better enterprise distribution. We're creating models in ITS that we pass out to business units, and I don't want to have to re-create the dataset each time - the business units should have the power to change the model in their domain. This would provide that capability without having to force them into Power BI Desktop
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
Please add this feature. We are importing data through REST API so web designer is only available. We cannot calculate success rate.
RE: Allow calculated measures in web designer
This is especially an issue with Direct Connect sources like Azure SQL Database and Azure Data Warehouse since you cannot aggregate aq percentage from a fact table today.