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Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

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abhishek sreesaila on 05 Jan 2015 04:25:31

Grouping Fields into dimensions and measures will allow for quickly locating the fields and helps design reports faster, rather than searching the long list of fields.

Administrator on 24 Jan 2015 06:11:41

Thanks Abhishek, this is a great idea! We'll consider it for the future, please add your votes it you agree!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:40

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

In a similar vein, it would be nice to have a little "Show Active Only" button at the top of the Fields pane. Clicking this button would hide all tables and all all fields except those included in the currently selected visualization. Currently Yellow highlighting provides similar functionality, but the feature could be strengthened by just allowing user to hide all the stuff that is not present in a given visualization. This would make training/adoption easier. [And yes, we can and should hide fields that we don't want anyone to see, but that's a separate issue). Thank you.

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Miguel on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:22

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

Yes please, add this improve

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Murali on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:14

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

Please implement this as this is really useful for developers and users alike.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:24

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

Would be great to organize measures into groups/categories/folders etc!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:37

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

It this works, we have a validate point for many customers who has come from reporting tools (SAP Business Objects (Universe), Cognos, Micro Strategy etc..). Many power bi users are trying to create reports once we build robust data model. This needs to addressed immediately.

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Raimana CHAMPS on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:21

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

Is it still under review ? I think this is important especially for time intelligence measures where you end up with lots of them (py, yoy, ytd...)

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Nagabhushan Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:03

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Is this implemented? Can we arrange Dimensions & Measures coming from multiple tables in DBinto their respective folders & sub folders in Power BI Desktop?

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Chris Staber on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:43

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It would be great to be able to define folders and hierarchies (nested folders).

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Deepak on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:01

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

A must have functionality for a simple Self Service BI solution....

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JB on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:55

RE: Grouping Fields into dimensions and measure

'@ GregDF - yes, many others do the same. It would work, but I would prefer the solution I mentioned in the original post - it works better for people who I'm trying to teach how to use Power BI.