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Anonymous
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1 year ago
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Power Bi creating a comment field

Is it possible to create a column in a table on a Power BI dashboard that acts as a notes field, where future users can, for example, write short explanations on why a delivery is late for example? I...
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  • shafiz_p's avatar
    shafiz_p
    1 year ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    Power bi is read only. You would not be able write back. But you can acheive this using power apps. 
    Suggesting you to check out this video:

    WRITE BACK Option with Power Apps 

    Hope this helps!!

    If this solved your problem, please accept it as a solution and a kudos!!

     

    Best Regards,
    Shahariar Hafiz

     

     

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danextian
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1 year ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

Writeback is not natively supported in Power BI.  Power BI service allows for commenting but not directly in the viz itself and certainly not through another or within a column like you can in Excel. However,  you can use PowerApps to allow leaving comments in relation to the fields in your viz but using the PowerApps viz and not tables or matrices. Here is a demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4N2B-sDgw

There also third party service providers that allow real-time writeback like Inforiver and PowerOnBI.