Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Description

Description for everything

Just think of a scenario, you are working on a Power BI report that is created by multiple developers and now you are debugging it. If you have no knowledge of the ins and outs of it you will get jaded by it very soon. But what if you see some description or textual information within the report? That will be the ray of light 💡.  As a best practice, if you are creating any report from scratch try to add a description to almost everything. Starting from the tables, columns, measures, calculation groups, field parameters..... How to do it? Okay, let's start by providing a description of the tables. I am using Sample Superstore data and want to provide a description - Contains sales data. To do so, go to the data model view. Select the table where you need to add the description. Under properties, you can provide a description under the description section. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!! That's basic and at Analyst in Action, we always strive to go beyond the basic knowledge. Let...