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Add the ability to stop calculations while working in Desktop App

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David Simerson on 26 Oct 2016 22:47:36

Due to report complexity it now takes many minutes (ie>5min often times) to do something as simple as create a measure.

I would like the ability to stop the calculations so that I can do a bunch of updates and then apply them at once, as I don't need to see the results while working. Just like setting calculations to manual in Excel.

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Wim Bulen on 19 Nov 2021 02:25:57

RE: Add the ability to stop calculations while working in Desktop App

Desperately need this. Working on a complex PowerBI report has become incredible tedious as I spend so much time waiting for the spinning circles to stop...

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Pedro Campelo on 16 Oct 2021 12:31:29

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Incredibly imporante feature to add

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Mircea RUSU on 27 Aug 2021 15:54:34

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Agree, this is a very frustrating issue, should be fixed asap. 

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Penny Robards on 19 Aug 2020 04:54:13

RE: Add the ability to stop calculations while working in Desktop App

Very very important the inability to stop calculation is frustrating and time-consuming, it's taking 10 times longer to work on complex reports. This feature would be greatly welcomed.

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Luke on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:10

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I'm surprised this isn't there already. A kill switch for measures/calc columns that have been mistakenly created to consume tonnes of memory would be great too

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:02

RE: Add the ability to stop calculations while working in Desktop App

This is such an important feature during the build phase of large files

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Chris Warrington on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:35

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This would save so much wasted time !! Please implement it or at least give an update as to your thoughts on this.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:16

RE: Add the ability to stop calculations while working in Desktop App

I have 20 reports to compile. Each one needs to retrieve 200+ data items from an SQL database. I then have to add hundreds of additional calculations/measures.

To write one report is taking DAYS of my time...mainly spent waiting for "Power" BI to respond. The report isn't looking at the SQL Database (It can't because I've moved it to another machine which is not connected to it) But it STILL takes forever.

This is not efficient - no wonder people prefer spreadsheets! They're far more developer friendly than this.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:35

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Would really appreciate this feature!

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William Harding on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:01

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Please. Please. Please. I spend so much time on this that PowerBI is almost unusable.