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Enhance Metadata - Descriptions

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Adam Harper on 21 Aug 2015 11:27:17

Add back the ability to add descriptions to the metadata....i.e. capability we had in Power Pivot to add descriptions to columns, tables, measures, etc.

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1304f92d 3e44-4bb0-b619-22e22c48f26c on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:52

RE: Enhance Metadata - Descriptions

Also covered there : https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/9423663-enhance-metadata-descriptions
and there : https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/8140623-description-of-the-fields

Can you combine it ?

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1304f92d 3e44-4bb0-b619-22e22c48f26c on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:51

RE: Enhance Metadata - Descriptions

'+ mouseover / tooltip in model pane and somehow in the report canvas

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b3e59020 b523-457a-bda1-66b89f5de5ef on 16 Aug 2020 03:52:05

RE: Enhance Metadata - Descriptions

This is critical for our user documentation. Being able to tie a column, table, or measure definition to the object itself makes documentation cleaner and reusable. A useful next step would be allow us to surface these descriptions in the tool tips! or at least allow us to enter descriptions for each visual that would be shown in the tool tip