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Measure Management & DAX Editor

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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 18 Oct 2022 00:53:09

Update 10/17: This is now in our upcoming roadmap and we will share more details in the coming months. Mo

We've been leaning on the community tools like Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, BISM Normalizer, to provide high-end DAX editing capabilities. We don't have any short-term plans to add more DAX management tools to the product, but we'll be looking at ways to better integrate those tools. 

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Matthias Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:10:31

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I would prefer an import/export functionality for measures. Would give me much more flexibility and would enable me to transfer measures between pbix files

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Aslak on 16 Aug 2020 04:10:30

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Thumbs up!

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Julian Payne on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:58

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Please make this a priority!

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:54

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It's a great idea. If Dax editor looked like MDX editor in SSAS I would be happy

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David Cresp on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:54

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'@Charkes Stirling :-(

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:54

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This is the capability that I have been waiting for , for some time,,,, very nice work on the mockk up

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Ralf Hanrieder on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:52

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Great Mockup! This is exactly what we need!

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Islam Sharaf on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:52

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Great Job!
Thanks everyone!

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IK on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:50

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Great job on this, hopefully this gets implemented soon!

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William McNair on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:49

RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor

Does moving to "Backlog" mean this feature suggestion go to the head of the line or does it get thrown into the back of the line never to be seen again. If the latter, how can we indicate that it is a very much needed feature? Is there a similar request in a different area?

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