Microsoft Copilot & quick measures

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot, based on ChatGPT, and is integrated within many Microsoft services and applications. If you use it in Power BI Desktop reporting platform, it enables you to create quick measures and to generate DAX statements based on natural language. With Microsoft Copilot, creating measures has become much simpler, and you will find out how it is used in the “recipe” that follows.

Quick measures

In the Home ribbon there are options for adding measures (New Measure)  and calculated columns (New Column), and recent novelty is functionality that is used to add „quick measures“ (New Quick Measure). It allows beginners that do not have the experience of writing a DAX expressions to create measures by simply dragging names of the reporting dimensions into the predicted fields, after which application automatically generates formulas.