Power BI Field Finder – new and improved!

Posted on by Stephanie Bruno

The Power BI Field Finder is a standalone .pbix file you can download and hook up to your reports and data model to. The Field Finder helps you visually analyze where fields are used in reports.

I just updated and released a ✨brand new version✨ of the Field Finder that can now connect to a data model to compare all data model fields with the fields used in visuals and filters.

You can also use the Field Finder to help you see the impact of changes to your data model to help clean up your data model by removing tables, columns, and measures that aren’t being used.

The Field Finder connects to a folder, so you can look at more than one Power BI desktop file at a time! It’s magic🪄! This allows you to analyze all files in a folder, rather than analyzing and optimizing .pbix files one by one!

Curious to know how you, too, can perform magic on your Power BI files? Read more about how to use the field finder and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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3 thoughts on “Power BI Field Finder – new and improved!”

  2. I’m missing a feature that lists the unused tables and columns – in other words – the tables and columns that I can remove from my pbix.

    Great tool though!

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    1. The latest version does indeed give you this info! The report shows all of the fields in the semantic model and how many times they’re used. If you look for the fields that are used 0 times, those are the ones to remove! Let us know if you’re still having issues.

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