alternate name for measure
Have 2 alternative and optional names for a measure 1) a natural language alternative name and 2) a short display name. In a large model measures necessarily have detailed and precise names to differentiate them. This means they do not respond well to natural language Q&A and they visualizations ...
Improve how sidebar filters work
The filters in the sidebar are very good but could be made easier to use with some minor changes. Firstly some filters are part of the design of the report/visual. eg I don't want to see dates in the future. It shoudl be possible to flag that filter as not user editable, or indeed visible. So th...
import measures from a pbix that access the model on the service
Once a model on the desktop has a lot of measures it becomes very slow to add new measures - several minutes - this means that adding a dozen measures for a new requirement can take a very long time. However, it is very quick to add new measures to a new .pbix that accesses that same main model v...
pbix saved date
I maintain a parameter in each .pbix called version or something like that and I put the date I made a change to the version. I can then display that in a visual on a report so I know if the latest version has synced to the service. But that means I need to remember to update the parameter each t...