PBI Desktop Alerts and Notifications

[Paulx99]

Hi All

Does anyone know if PBI Desktop can generate alerts and notifications based on DAX logic, including calculated columns and measures ?

Cheers

Paul

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi Paul,

Based on my understanding, when you type the DAX in Power BI Desktop, if there is something wrong within the DAX, you want to get some notification or alerts about this error, right?

In Power BI desktop, the DAX editor includes suggestions, a feature used to create syntactically correct formulas by helping us select the correct elements. Generally, if there is something wrong in DAX, the error will display like below:

Reference:

DAX basics in Power BI Desktop

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[Paulx99]

Hi Qiuyun

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately, what you've mentioned below is not what I am talking about. What I want to be able to do is to visually highlight exceptions that result from conditional statements. Please refer to my reply to eno1978.

Regards

Paul

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@Paulx99 Can you describe this a bit more?.. Alerts and notifications on a device, like outside the desktop file. Or are you talking about visually highlighting certain elements in a visual conditionally?

[Paulx99]

Hi Eno1978

Thanks for your reply and sorry for the lateness of mine. What I'm trying to do is to visually highlight exceptions that result from conditional statements. A simple example - I calculate profit:

profit = [sale price] - [cost price]

Then, I create a conditional statement to identify a profit, loss or break even situation:

profit desc = IF([profit]>0, "profit", IF([profit]<0,"loss", IF([profit]=0,"break even")))

What I want to be able to do is visually highlight (create an automatic highlighted alert for, in the data view), profit desc if 

profit desc = loss

Something like ALERT if profit_desc = "loss"

would be great !

Paul

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @Paulx99,

We are not able to configure alerts or notifications in Power BI Desktop currently. For this issue, please submit a idea in Power BI Idea forum.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[Paulx99]

Ok thanks for letting me know. would be great if it could be done !