Support Display Folders for Table Objects

[jobebiz]

Support Display Folders for Table Objects and not just columns

[darius_saldausk]

That would make my and other's life so much easier! It just makes sense

[nishalit]

Thanks, we are currently looking at supporting this, no timelines yet though.

[nishalit]

It would be nice with some kind of organizing level above the table level in a (tabular) data model in Power BI, SSAS etc. For instance, by using "Display folders" to include measures, columns etc. from multiple tables in the same folder. There's a lot of business value to tap into between and across organizational boundries and tables, or from a wider overview, which is restricted by the tables as the top level in larger data models. The concept quickly and superficially illustrated by a fictive AdventureWorks example: https://oxcrx34285.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/166559i041B82FEAEB0C494/image-size/large Maybe one could also have a choice between showing the traditional table views and this virtual folder structure, when one needs the underlying tables/table structure for whatever reason.

[kford]

Agreed that this is key!

[sreenivas_donep]

We already can group measures into a folder and the fields within a table into a folder. We need a way to group tables into a folder and this should not be that difficult to achieve. We need this especially while building out large data models so that we can better organize our tables into folders without which it is difficult for report developers/data model consumers to wrap their head around the data model.

Currently we are using Power BI Embedded (Embed for your customers) as a part of our application and we expose our data model to our customers so that they can build their own reports on top of our data model. As we keep extending our data model it is getting difficult to organize our tables and our customers get thrown-off when they see hundreds of tables and are finding it difficult to use it for building their reports. We definitely need to be able to create folder structures for tables as well, because workarounds like renaming tables for grouping/sorting them is not so neat.

[santhosh_kumar_]

This is a very basic requirement and available in all other BI Tools. Power BI being a leader in the market, should try to fix this as soon as possible. Hope they will work on it.

[marcel_dcosta]

Any update on creating folders to arrange tables?

[h_j_alblas]

We require this feature for use in (large) SSAS tabular models which are directly consumed bij end users in Excel. Models can consist of many separate dimension objects which we would like to combine in specific folders and subfolders to presen to end-users.

[Tammy_Adolf]

This was marked as "Under Review" a year ago, any update on when it will be available?

[elchin1]

I wounder why this feature is not there yet. This feature is a necessity. Also instead of making us putting measure into a fake table, it would useful to make a separate section in the fields panel for measures.