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Does anyone know why Smart Narrative is not picking up some measure. It selectively picks up some measures but in theory it should pick up any measure I need.
I have attached a screenshot of a test measure from my current model that is representative of the issue, can't share the file. The model is pretty complicated; 35 tables, 31 relationship, 200+ measures, all necesssary and req by business.
I have neither imported any external lingustic schema nor did I edit the exisitng linguistic schema. I am not sure what is causing that but it is extremely annoying.
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I tried switiching on and off following but it did not work
OK. So an alternative to consider is HTML Content (Lite) Visual by Daniel Marsh-Patrick. It's a free, power bi certified visual that you can add and use HTML to add your measures to and create it to suit your purpose. It looks and feels better than Smart Narrative. just requires a little more work.
Hope that helps.
Hi @smpa01
Smart Narrative has certain limitations and does not support all types of data or visual configurations.
Create smart narrative summaries - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Best Regards,
Jayleny
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@Anonymous thanks. I read throught the list and I could not associate a single limitation that applies to it. What might be causing this. Why does it pick up a particular measure from the same table and not the other when both are strings coming from a source table resides in a dataflow?
WHAT is causing SN to be so tempermental?
I am seeing the same 'bug'. I am beginning to suspect that this is a strong push toward Fabric/Copilot integration. This used to be a useful tool and now seems to be a PITA.
Same issue here - working on a fairly complicated BI file, I've added some new measures, and can't get any of my new measures (which are fairly simple and shouldn't in theory have issues) to be picked up by smart narrative.
Is there some sort of limitation/bug with this feature where it stops working after a certain model size or number of measures added?
Very annoying and causing some major issues with the annual report I'm working on!
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