IntelliSense Should Use Best Practice Column and Measure Naming Conventions
There is a clearly defined and accepted best practice for referencing columns and measures in the DAX language. 1. Column names should ALWAYS reference the table name. TableName[Column Name] 2. Measures should NEVER reference the table name. [Measure Name] This is a fundamental concept accept...
Default Decimal Currency
When you set the data type for currency for a measure or a column, the default number of decimal points is Auto. If the value is a floating point value, then you will get something like 12.385923492345 This is not very useful for a currency format. It would seem to me to make more sense to eit...
Search for Synonyms in Field List
The synonym feature has been deployed. You can create a synonym for any column or measures. When you use Q&A, I could search for "Sls" and it will understand it as "Sales". But when I go to the search dialogue box in the fields list and I type "Sls", it doesn't find the synonym. This seems li...
Better Handle Column Types on Load in Dimension Tables
When you load a dimension table (say a calendar table) in Power BI desktop, there are often lots of numeric columns that are not additive. Examples include Year, Month Number, Day of Week etc. By default (unless you set the data type to text) these numeric columns will have the default aggregat...
Images should have Locked Aspect Ratio
When I add an image to Power BI Desktop, the default setting is that the Aspect Ratio is not locked. This makes the process of scaling the image to a suitable size behave in an inconsistent way compared to (say) PowerPoint. If you turn on "lock aspect ratio", then the image scales correctly and ...
Allow me to add a measure name when creating Quick Measures
The quick measures feature is very useful, but it normally gives an inappropriate name to the measure. How about adding a dialog box that will allow the user to create their own name at the time when the quick measure is created. Currently you have to immediately edit the measure after the quic...
No Ctrl-Click on Buttons Needed for Bookmarks View Mode
When editing in Desktop, you have to Ctrl-Click a button to trigger the assigned action - very good. But when you have multiple bookmarks and you go into "View" mode, you are effectively in "PowerPoint Mode". When in this mode, there should be just a single click for a button (no ctrl needed).
Turn off Matrix Total
It is not intuitive how to turn off the Grand Total row in a matrix. If you go to Format\Grand Total, there is no option to turn it off. Instead you have to go to Subtotal\Per Row Level and then turn Header off. This is not intuitive and not discover able unless someone else shows you how to d...
Copy Single Value from Data View
There is a previous idea that is marked completed, but it is definitely not complete. https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=8ea93e7e-1c53-404a-b149-c21fcc06e398 It is possible to copy a table or a column in the data view, but it is *not possible* to copy a *single cell value*. The use ca...
Provide a CamelCase toggle option for Applied Steps in Power Query
The Applied Steps pane on the right (in Power Query) auto generates step names using normal spaced words. This is great when reading the step names in this pane. There is, however, an unfortunate consequence of this naming style. The M Code is more difficult to read and write (although readin...