# Automating Power BI Measure and Column Descriptions with a Tabular Editor Script

DevFeed: [Automating Power BI Measure and Column Descriptions with a Tabular Editor Script](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pro-trick-for-measure-descriptions-in-power-bi-40846.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mutto.fyi/posts/2024/08/the-trick-measure-description-powerbi/>)

Published: 2024-08-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Mutt0-ds Notes](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mutt0-ds-notes.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Script](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/script.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [business logic](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/business-logic.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>)

Tags: [business-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-logic.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [dev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dev.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents a Tabular Editor script in C# that copies DAX code into the Description field for Power BI measures and calculated columns. It also discusses adding comments and ticket IDs for context, and describes a possible TMDL and DevOps pipeline alternative.

## Source excerpt

"How does this MEASURE/COLUMN work?" This is one of the most frequent requests I was receiving. And it's easy to see why. In complex Power...