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Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

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Tommy Puglia on 27 Dec 2016 21:43:24

The ability to hide columns for the Report view/Q&A/Quick Insights is a great asset when publishing a Live Report, but this can become very tedious. The ability to bulk hide columns from tables would not just be a time-saver, but would help refine all Reports.

Also, cleaning up Measures can be a very tedious process, and the ability to bulk-edit or move measures would be a great feature.

Administrator on 29 Jun 2021 22:17:33

With the External Tools integration for Power BI Desktop, bulk editing and update operations are now available to users, to learn more: https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-external-tools

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Ankush on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:57

RE: Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

Yes please do this.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:17

RE: Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

Ability to trace/highlight columns and measures leveraged in a report is an essential missing component our of Power BI. Need to easily identify what columns, measures, and columns leveraged within measures & custom columns are used across a report / .PBIX.

Complimented with the ability to switch to view the opposite of columns and measures not leveraged in the report, then option to bulk hide, retain, or remove these ancillary columns and measures will allow data models to be optimized and increase performance.

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Joseph Hughes on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:37

RE: Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

bump, this needs to be a priority

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Hugo Toledo on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:05

RE: Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

There are 1590 Votes for a superset of this idea in https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7345565-power-bi-designer-api?page=3&per_page=20

Unfortunately, no movement on it since 2015.

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Anthony van der Hoorn on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:56

RE: Bulk Editing for Columns/Measures in PBI Desktop

I am so over editing measures one at a time. Please add bulk editing of these.