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Kletzy's avatar
Kletzy
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4 years ago

Best Practice tooltip measure definitions

Hi All

 

I'm looking for suggestions or resources around best practice when providing users with the defintitions of measures via a tooltip (i.e. to explain how the measure is calculated e.g. "Measure a = variable b divided by variable c (excluding d)" etc - We have a key measures table with definitions for developers but would like to easily show these to end users in the reports to avoid confusion and improve understanding of what users are seeing.

 

I'd like to avoud a manual defintions table which is filtered for each measure and used as a report tooltip (unless there is an automated way to create and maintain this table). Also ideally I'd like to avoid placing a ? hover on each report of visual as I have done in the past.

 

Are there any suggestions?

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4 Replies

    • Kletzy's avatar
      Kletzy
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      4 years ago

      Hi amitchandak I have done that but there is no way to use that as a tooltip on visuals for report users?

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        4 years ago

        Hi Kletzy ,

         

        As far as I know, the description of measure will appear when you hang over your mouse on the measure name in Fields.

        Power BI doesn't support us to show measure description in visual like tooltips.

        Or I think you can try to add description in measure by characters in format/* */

        Measure =  [A] + [B]/*A + B*/

         

        Best Regards,
        Rico Zhou

         

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