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grantsamborn

DAX Editor

Submitted by Solution Sage on ‎09-15-2022 09:03 PM

I'm not sure this where I should be posting this.  If not here, I'm hoping someone will point me in the right direction.

 

a couple ideas that could help the Power BI Desktop experience:

1. Why isn't there an editor for DAX that is something like "Advanced Editor" in Power Query.  It would make editing lengthy DAX measures much easier.  (Having to hit <ENTER>  instead of <CTRL><ENTER> would be an improvement on it's own.)

2. It would be nice to have something like daxformatter.com (and powerqueryformatter.com) integrated into Power BI.

 

I think would greatly improve productivity for myself (and a few people I've mentioned these ideas to).

If I'm missing these features (or other options), I apologize.

 

Status: Delivered

Currently, no such editor for dax code. We normally edit it in dax input box. For the need of any feature that is not supported for now, post the idea in Power BI Ideas is a good choice. It’s a place the product group collects suggestions from users to improve this product. Link for Power BI Ideas is Ideas (powerbi.com).

 

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DataInsights
Super User
Super User
‎09-17-2022 07:03 AM

@grantsamborn,

 

These are great ideas--you can post them at the link below. Also, you can search the Ideas forum to see if these ideas already exist, and add your vote.

 

https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/ 

 

Have you used Tabular Editor? It will greatly enhance your experience with Power BI Desktop. There's a free version and a paid version. Some of the features it offers:

 

  1. DAX editor that allows <ENTER>
  2. DAX formatter
  3. Copy a measure (including its metadata)
  4. Perform mass updates (example: change the display folder for multiple measures)
  5. View relationships (ability to filter on a table and get relationship counts)
  6. Create calculation groups
  7. Perform find/replace in measures (example: change a column name in multiple measures)
grantsamborn
Solution Sage
Solution Sage
‎09-17-2022 10:53 AM

Thanks - I knew there would be a better place to post this somewhere else.  I'll take a look at that board.

Regarding Tabular Editor...  I use it occasionally but was thinking it would be nice to have those features IN Power BI. 

Thanks again,

Grant

 

v-cazheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support
‎09-18-2022 07:38 PM
Status changed to: Delivered

Currently, no such editor for dax code. We normally edit it in dax input box. For the need of any feature that is not supported for now, post the idea in Power BI Ideas is a good choice. It’s a place the product group collects suggestions from users to improve this product. Link for Power BI Ideas is Ideas (powerbi.com).

 

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