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Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

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Mark Walter on 08 Jan 2018 01:31:00

In the field well I would find it very useful to be able to right click over an existing measure and copy/duplicate measure in order to quickly create a modified version of the original measure.

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Stijn Verhoeven on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:52

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

This idea has already been suggested with more votes currently at https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/13219620-duplicate-measure-and-format-copy

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:10

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

Yes, it would be a great time saver! I went through the trouble of creating a group list, and now I have another table I need to do the same thing for a similar column and it's a very tedious task. It would help if I could just copy my old measure into the new table

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:02

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

This is the basic feature that every application should have. Pls add it in next release

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Jim Lenox on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:53

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

Agreed .. I can cut and paste the text into a new measure and then slightly alter the formula (e.g. change Sales MTD to Sales YTD) , but then I have to reapply the formatting which is a bit annoying.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:16

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

Definitely a time saver to be able to copy new measures/new columns across and then modify for the destination table

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:26

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

We are creating multiple reports/dashboard. This is a necessary functionality, and it would save us lots of time as currently I have to spend hours to copy the measures for each report..

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:00

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

Please add this functionality in your next release

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:15

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

We all seem to have need for duplicating measures across tables this would bring an already very useful tool up to Gold Standard

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Refa on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:40

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

this feature would be very fine, to accoplish department needs.
Thank you in advance.

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Murali on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:13

RE: Copy / Duplicate a measures from the field well

Need option to copy all the measures and Column formulas into another table in case when we are in a situation to change the data source for Ex: Local Excel file to Sharepoint Exel file.

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