PowerBI Report trace which Fields used

[gavs73]

Hi

Picked up a PowerBI report written by someone else, is there a way to see which visualizations are using a particular Data table and/or field ?, there is a table which doesn't look like it is in use by any of the visualizations but I want to be sure before i delete it. Is there anywhere I can look and a data table and it will tell me which visualisations it is currently linked to ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gav

 

[JustynaMK]

Hi Gav,
As far as I know, this is not possible (shame!). The only way to know if anything breaks is to save your pbix file (before you start breaking things), delete a table / field, and then literally go through all your pages + measures + data model and see if everything still works...
I'd love for someone to prove me wrong

 

[gavs73]

Hi Gav,
As far as I know, this is not possible (shame!). The only way to know if anything breaks is to save your pbix file (before you start breaking things), delete a table / field, and then literally go through all your pages + measures + data model and see if everything still works...
I'd love for someone to prove me wrong

Thank you for your reply, it seems like such an obvious feature to have, hopefully they will add it in the future.

 

[JustynaMK]

Agreed! Fingers crossed for a quick implementation.