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Properties Pane disappeared?
Anonymous wrote:The scenario I'm in is that I connect to a published dataset on the PowerBI service.
I think you need to go into the published dataset and change the properties there. (that way any report that connects to the data set will see your description). These properties are connected to the data model, not the report visuals.
First of all, thank you for replying.
The situation precludes putting this on the source dataset. The central BI department deploys the general model on behalf of a wide user base, with some measures, but only those that have have univeral applicability as the data model and user base covers a multitenant setting, and there are a lot of custom needs that are not suitable to put into the main model that is shared by everyone. It is left to report authors and analysts to create the highly custom measures for their setting and document.
In previous versions of PBI desktop, when connected to an existing dataset published on PBI service, right from the visualization pane, you could right click on a table, add a custom measure, then right click on your custom measure, local to the report only, and select properties and enter a description. I don't know when this change was made, but I noticed it when the interface went from the dark to light UI between versions.
Anonymous wrote:In previous versions of PBI desktop, when connected to an existing dataset published on PBI service, right from the visualization pane, you could right click on a table, add a custom measure, then right click on your custom measure, local to the report only, and select properties and enter a description. I don't know when this change was made, but I noticed it when the interface went from the dark to light UI between versions.
Oh I see, sorry I did not realize you were talking about report level measures. You are right, this does appear to be an issue introduced with the June update (I still have a copy of the version that I use with our local Power BI Report Server instance and that still has the Field properties option). I'll make some inquiries and see if I can find out what happened here.
Apparently this was removed on purpose. :( I would suggest raising a User Voice request and posting a link back to this thread as the functionality in the new modelling view is not available for Live Connection base reports leaving a functionality gap.