"Hiding" unused measures

macfuller

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Office Version
  1. 365
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  1. Windows
I have measures that come in and out of favor for my reports. I'd like to save processing time when running the refresh queries, but don't want to delete them from the model entirely since they may be wanted again.

So I usually comment out the "real" measure and put a dummy value. DAX will strip comments if they're at the start or end of the expression so that's why I use the VAR construct

Rich (BB code):
[My Archive Measure]:= 
VAR Constant = 3
/*
Real measure syntax
*/
RETURN
Constant

Does anyone else have this issue, and have a good solution for keeping the measures handy?
 

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