Measure Killer
Compatibility
What works with Measure Killer.
File types, Power BI features and visuals — and the few things that don't work yet.
- ✓ fully compatible
- ? limited compatibility
- ✗ currently not working
Reference detection
99.99% accuracy — what we see, and the edge cases that can slip throughWhat Measure Killer detects
Including obscure references most tools miss
- ✓ Visuals, filters and conditional formatting
- ✓ Measures (incl. report-level)
- ✓ Active and inactive relationships
- ✓ Power Query columns — joins, appends, references
- ✓ Calculated columns and calculated tables
- ✓ Row-level (RLS) and object-level (OLS) security
- ✓ Calculation groups, field parameters and DAX UDFs
- ✓ Visual calculations, mobile views and dynamic M
- ✓ KPIs, hierarchies and sort-by-column references
Known limitations
Where edge cases or Power BI internals push back
- ! Copy-pasted reports with minor edits can cause false references (Power BI Desktop quirk)
- ! Restrictive sensitivity labels can block local file analysis
- ! Same-name column + measure can mis-flag in Paginated Reports
- ! Personalized visuals and "Explore this data (Preview)" aren't detected
- ! DAX UDFs in Pro workspaces and hierarchies in Paginated Reports
General
File types, storage modes and connection supportFile types
- ✓ .pbix
Desktop and Desktop RS
- ✓ .pbip
Power BI Project files
- ✓ .pbir
Enhanced Report Layout (PBIR)
- ✓ .pbit
Storage modes
- ✓ DirectQuery
- ✓ Composite models Paid
- ✓ Direct Lake Paid
- ✓ Thin files / Live connection Paid
Cross-asset
- ✓ Downstream semantic models Paid
- ✓ All connected reports in the Power BI Service Paid
- ✓ Analyze in Excel on top of a semantic model Paid
Other formats
- ✓ Paginated reports Paid
- ✓ SSAS and AAS Paid
Tabular only
✗ Currently not working
- Dashboards
- .bim files / models stored in a folder
- Metrics (Goals)
- Exploration items
- Activators
Feature compatibility
Power BI modeling features Measure Killer understands- ✓ Row-level security
- ✓ Object-level security
Tables with OLS are identified, columns are not
- ✓ Calculation groups
- ✓ Field parameters
- ✓ Dynamic format strings
- ✓ Visual calculations
- ✓ KPIs (created in the tabular model)
- ✓ DAX UDFs
- ✓ Custom fiscal calendars
Visuals
Out-of-the-box and custom visuals ✓ Supported 6
- ✓ Standard visuals
All — except the Q&A visual (see Not working)
- ✓ Icon Map
- ✓ Zebra BI visuals
- ✓ HTML VizCreator Cert
- ✓ HTML VizCreator Flex
- ✓ Balance Sheet Visual
? Limited 1
- ? Other custom visuals
Not all custom visuals have been tested
✗ Not working 3
- ✗ Q&A visual
- ✗ Paginated report visual
- ✗ Metrics (Goals) visual