JSF on 12 Feb 2016 17:20:13
If you could give readers of a report or dashboard the opportunity to comment on the figures they see, it would add enormous value.
Administrator on 31 Mar 2018 12:32:57
Thanks everyone for your support and votes! We’re working on enabling commenting for dashboards and reports in the Power BI service in H1.
- Comments (23)
RE: Commentary option
We are often given this requirement. The most common is from the Finance department for 2 reasons, first is when they are working on closing the month and the numbers are unexpected due to incorrect data entry from operations that they need to correct. Second is when the closed month is not as expected and an explanation is needed for the management team. Linked to this is, whenever a report is shown containing the transactions that cause the blip, the report / dashboard would need a warning symbol to indicate that there is a comment against data within the report.
Another less important requirement has been to search past comments for the details when something similar happens again and to find what the resolution was.
RE: Commentary option
Agree, we would love to have this feature to gather management commentary against reports
RE: Commentary option
This would be a great feature for supporting action and senior management oversight. Let's say I'm responsible for a metric in my department. I see some bad numbers, react, and add commentary recording the details. When a senior manager is exploring and comes across the same bad numbers, they see my notes and know that it's being attended to.