Welcome back to
this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we consider linked metrics.
Linked metrics have
been released into the wild just recently.
You can now show the same metric on multiple scorecards, across multiple
workspaces. All check-ins, edits and
updates will be reflected in all the metric locations, making it easier to not
create duplicate metrics tracking the same thing.
For example, in
many organisations, the leadership team has a scorecard, and each department
has its own scorecard with metrics from the former along with others that are
relevant to the specific department. Using
this feature, you can now link such metrics to any number of scorecards and get
them to be in sync automatically.
You can link
metrics from a scorecard you have build access to (i.e. permissions to
build content with the data associated with the scorecard), to any scorecards
to which you have edit access. To link a
metric, go to edit mode and select ‘Link to existing metric’ from the New
button.
Pick the scorecard
that contains the metric you’d like to link.
Now select the
metric(s) you’d like to include in this scorecard.
Once you hit ‘Continue’
the linked metric(s) will appear on the scorecard. You should note that you can add check-ins
from the linked metric, but you can make edits only in the source metric. You can navigate from the linked metric to the
source metric by selecting ‘Go to source metric’ from the overflow menu of the
metric.
You can see the
name and link to the source scorecard in the Details pane and in the
Connections pane.
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