Naji El Kotob on 24 Jul 2018 05:27:15
Adding few measures to your data model in PowerBI could be easily managed, but what about adding tens or even hundreds of measures! Organizing those measure into categories using folders could help a lot.
To show you what I exactly mean, I will demonstrate the alternative way to create those folders using empty tables:
1. Select "Enter Data" from the Home ribbon > Change the column name to "Id" and choose the table name e.g. "_Financial Measures" (Create all the tables)
2. Select "New Measure" from the Modeling ribbon (Or choose any shortcut) > Type and create a new measure e.g. Total Sales = SUM(Sales[SalesAmount])
3. Select the created measure in the "FIELDS" pane or just click inside the formula bar > Open the "Home Table" list from the modeling ribbon and select a table
4. When done, right-click on the "Id" columns and select Hide
5. Now, Power BI will change the Icon from Table to Measures. How nice!
Happy PowerBI-ing,
Administrator on 28 Jul 2021 22:31:20
Display folders provide this capability.
- Comments (15)
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
The display folders are super nice 👌
A great addition would be to the ability to drag and drop measures into folders from the report view. You can do this from the model view, but it makes for a muc nicer workflow to do it from the same view, where you create the measures.
The nicest thing would be to simply be able to directly right-click a display folder in report view and choose "New measure".
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
Already possible, create display folders. I have submitted this idea to be marked as completed.
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
Certainly a nice to have so +1 vote, but not my highest need relative to other voted items
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
Would be great to Catgorize & filter/search without moving into different folders!
E.g. Categorize by Scenario: "Forecast" vs. " Actual" vs. "Budget"
Categorize by Calc type: "Trailing-Twelve-Month" vs. "Year-to-Date" vs. "Prior Month, Year etc"
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
We definitely need a way to group these without resorting to clumsy annoying to read names and hacky tables. This would be a great QoL upgrade.
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
I believe this is already a feature that is a available. We have created "Measure tables" and used the DisplayFolder property to group like measures together.
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
You can group measures into folders with the modeling feature: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
I really miss this function, or at least just let me change the order how the measures appear within a table.
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
That's a cool feature that Tableau already has
RE: Organizing Measures into Categories using Folders
I went through it this week and thought I'd post an idea when I already found this one. This would be a great feature.