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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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jsp.almeida1983 on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:48

RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor

Please Please advance this feature asap. Entire world will thank you so much. I’am sure of that.

Happy 2019!!

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:43

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:42

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mockup looks great

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Rita on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:39

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Mockup looks great! I hope it gets picked up.

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Felix Becker on 16 Aug 2020 04:09:01

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'+ a type ahead functionality would be a plus, or kind of "auto fill", e.g. start typing "calc" than press e.g. "Tab" and the editor propose results, like "Calculate".
+ a formula checker (like others already suggested would be great.

I support entire idea. What a great effort DaveG. Thank you. Hope to see something similar soon.

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Daniel Aubert D Amico on 16 Aug 2020 04:08:51

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Your Mockup is Fantastic DaveG !
Must have feature!

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Jonathan on 16 Aug 2020 04:08:48

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The mockup looks fantastic, I can't believe they haven't even started to implement this yet.

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D. Pearce on 16 Aug 2020 04:08:31

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This is a critical issue that is keeping me from migrating several business critical reports from Excel to PowerBI. Having maintained this data for over 7 years, we followed the progression of PowerBI from it's early origins in PowerPivot, creating tons of custom measures with both complex relationships and DAX formulae in their Data Models.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:08:28

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What? W don't have advanced editor in Power BI? Oh come on...I was about to ditch Excel for Power Pivot and now I have to go back...

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Marcelo Silva on 16 Aug 2020 04:08:18

RE: Measure Management & DAX Editor

Best mockup I've seen!! In a fully centralized data storage, a variable/measure that depends on native fields can be dragged across to other PBIX just as natural and whether the new pbix consumes the same native fields then it can attempt the calculation.

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