Microsoft Idea

806

List where a column or measure is used in a report

Dave Gugg on 12/17/2016 6:00:28 AM

806

It can be unwieldy to manage measures and columns, especially when custom measures and columns are built on top of other measures and columns. It would be helpful to have a [Where Used] option to provide a list of visuals and/or columns/measures where a particular column is used. That way you can delete unneeded measures/columns without worrying about breaking everything.

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RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Devender Bolledla on 5/29/2023 12:56:58 AM

Worth having it. Saves a lot of time.

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Anthony Alessi on 4/28/2023 5:28:28 PM

This feature would be a huge help in all versions of desktop (Report Server and Service optimized).

Came here from: Solved: How to find where a column is used? - Microsoft Power BI Community

The solutions are all external tools:

VertiPaq Analyzer

Power BI Helper

but had the most success with:

Power BI Cleaner Gen2 The BIccountant

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Marcel ten Broeke on 4/14/2023 1:28:24 PM

How many votes does an idea need ? In the past with Uservoice for Configurationmanager for example, many idea's has been started as investigation with more then half the votes this one has for example.

anyway, this is a very welcome feature to optimize the to be published reports without breaking potential relations in larger models.

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Md Jubaer Mahmud on 1/4/2023 3:01:55 PM

A highly needed feature!

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Daniel Cassidy on 11/16/2022 12:35:46 PM

I'm surprised PowerBI doesn't have this feature, it seems like a fairly basic requirement. I have voted for it. :-)

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

John Olav Bonsak on 10/4/2022 12:01:39 PM

Any improvement which contributes to closing this transparency/lineage gap would be very much appreciated, PBI Team!

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Md Sajjadur Rahman on 9/1/2022 4:15:23 PM

Much needed feature. please add it.

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Kurt A. Hinds on 4/12/2022 8:07:18 AM

Come on guys alreasdy 6 years of begging. Please tell me someone is reading these forums?

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Dan Kang on 11/12/2021 1:24:25 AM

Even if they had a hide unused fields like Tableau that would be a helpful start.

RE: List where a column or measure is used in a report

Mark Wheeler on 10/25/2021 8:40:12 PM

Please provide the ability to see where measures are used across a workspace.
Please make sure this feature DOES NOT require Administrator role to execute.