Enhance Metadata - Descriptions

[adam_harper]

Add back the ability to add descriptions to the metadata....i.e. capability we had in Power Pivot to add descriptions to columns, tables, measures, etc.

[ckapp]

This is critical for our user documentation. Being able to tie a column, table, or measure definition to the object itself makes documentation cleaner and reusable. A useful next step would be allow us to surface these descriptions in the tool tips! or at least allow us to enter descriptions for each visual that would be shown in the tool tip

[mvp4]

Also covered there : https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/9423663-enhance-metadata-descriptions and there : https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/8140623-description-of-the-fields Can you combine it ?

[mvp4]

'+ mouseover / tooltip in model pane and somehow in the report canvas

[paul_burton1]

Even just to have something in DAX that could be used to return the description.

In the same way that you can use SELECTEDMEASURENAME() or SELECTEDMEASUREFORMATSTRING() to return the name or the format string of the measure, respectively, you could have something like SELECTEDMEASUREDESCRIPTION() and SELECTEDCOLUMNDESCRIPTION() that returns the description from the metadata. They you could just create a tooltip report that uses this one measure to return the description on mouse-over.