What are your measure naming conventions?

[BrianJ]

@Greg

As well, you can add a glossary page or info button tooltip to your report(s) that reads from a stand-alone Excel file listing all abbreviations and their “expanded” meanings, if that would help the end users.

@Jamie,

Following on to @Greg’s excellent post, I wanted to share a great technique I first saw @datazoe use, which was to include a searchable table (with the addition of a slicer on the measure “Name” column) with all of her measure info at the end of her report.

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@datazoe, Terrific entries, and I’m really enjoying reading your writeups. I’ve always included an "About"page at the end of my reports as well, but it never occurred to me to make them anything other than a static page. I love the way you’ve structured yours, both the info included, and the way the table is sliceable. [image] I’m curious – what tool(s) did you use to extract all the measure code and the other info to build the table visual? Great stuff. Really looking forward to your fut…

You can play with her live report here:

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Also, I would strongly recommend taking a look at calculation groups - if your measures follow repeating patterns (e.g., 20 measures for Sales, same 20 measures for Profits, etc), Calc groups can reduce your total # of measures needed by 75% or more. If you go to YouTube and search for "Enterprise DNA Calculation groups, it will take you to a whole series of great videos done by Enterprise DNA Experrt @MudassirAli.

I hope this is helpful.

• Brian