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Needs VotesList of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
Eddy De Maerschalck on 28 Feb 2017 15:58:03
How can I get a documentation which mentions which field is used on a visual? or in a calculation of a column or measure?
With DAX studio we can make a list of calculated fields and measures. And with a little programming we can see which field as source for another calculated field or measure.
I know that by clicking on a visual the involved dataset will be highlighted into yellow. If I expand it, I see data fields used (which is selected) in this visual.To do this manually I'll need to click on each visual, manually make a note of every field used, cliick on the next visual, manually make a note of fields used...>> iterate. That'll take ages.
Main purpose is to eliminate all unneccessary fields and ... documentation!
- Comments (17)
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
I think this would be a great idea
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
Yes!!!! Similar to Trace Precedents in Excel.
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
This would be very useful to keep file sizes down be excluding unneeded columns from queries
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
'+ ability to search for reused measures/calculated columns/fields to find where they have been used. This will be especially useful when you change a measure and want to see what effects it has taken on other measures. Same for fields and cal. columns.
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
Dynamic management views (DMV) for Power BI workbooks. This could allow us to quickly find every location where a column was used as a filter and update the filter values. The only way to do this now is by manually checking every chart object on every tab in every workbook. If I have an average of 8 visuals per tab, 6 tabs per workbook, and 10 workbooks, that's 8 * 6 * 10 = 480 chart objects to check manually. :(
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
Please do this. I am given a PowerBI workbook with half a dozen pages and a dozen tables. I need to replicate the underlying data. Knowing which visuals use which tables will go a long way toward helping me understand how to build the underlying tables.
RE: List of used fields in visuals (and in calculated fields and measures)
yes! Please look into this request! i have many reports with so many visuals on so many pages, i wanted to do housekeeping to eliminate unused measures or fields, its going to take me ages to do that! or is there any work around solution for this??