accoCOMMENT

A contextual, text-based commentary tool with support for ratings, attachments, and workflow options

Create, edit, and save contextual comments and actions directly inside Power BI — with full writeback support. If you experience issues purchasing through AppSource, please contact us for alternative licensing options.

Why accoCOMMENT?

Organizations often struggle to capture the why behind the numbers. Email threads, Excel notes, and disconnected systems make it difficult to store business context consistently.

accoCOMMENT solves this by enabling users to comment directly in Power BI:

• Add business explanations to KPIs
• Document anomalies and data quality issues
• Capture management commentary for financial reporting
• Collect structured feedback
• Attach supporting documents to specific numbers
• Enhance collaboration directly in the BI workflow

As a native Power BI visual, you maintain the full flexibility of Power BI — both technically and visually — while enabling a powerful commenting workflow without switching systems.

What is accoCOMMENT?

accoCOMMENT is a Power BI custom visual that enables users to create context-dependent comments and actions tied directly to any number, visual, slice, or filtered dataset in Power BI.

It goes far beyond simple text commenting:

• Rich text comments (bold, colors, bullets, formatting)
• Ratings and structured assessments
• Dropdown selections & categorical inputs
• File uploads and supporting documents
• Figures, tags, and metadata
• Saved with filter context, row context, and data subsets
• Fully integrated writeback functionality to SQL

Because it is embedded directly in Power BI, comments automatically reflect applied filters and are saved with that exact context.

How Does It Work?

accoCOMMENT lets users create comments within any applied filter or data slice. Examples include:

• A comment tied to a specific product, month, or region
• A comment tied to a filtered customer segment
• A comment tied to a specific KPI value
• A comment containing text, tags, ratings, selections, and attachments

These comments are written back to a SQL table, enabling use in reporting, governance, planning, approval workflows, and more.

Requirements

1. Microsoft Power BI
2. SQL table access (Azure/Fabric/on-prem recommended) for writeback storage
3. accoCOMMENT license (AppSource or vendor key)

How to Get Started

accoCOMMENT is available through Microsoft AppSource. After adding it to your report:

1. Connect it to your Power BI model
2. Configure fields that define context (product, period, department, etc.)
3. Provide a SQL table for writeback
4. License via AppSource or vendor key

Users can then add contextual comments and actions directly inside the report.

Supported Features

• Rich text editor with advanced formatting
• Ratings and categorical inputs
• File uploads (documents, images, attachments)
• Comment versioning & history
• Row-level & context-level commenting
• Restricted or rule-based comment types
• Audit logs
• Advanced input validation (incl. regex)

Popular Use Cases

• Financial reporting commentary & actions
• Budgeting & forecasting explanations
• Audit trails & governance documentation
• Data quality notes & anomaly tracking
• Product, customer, or KPI-specific insights
• Project updates tied directly to metrics
• Structured feedback collection

Main Benefits of accoCOMMENT

• Stay inside Power BI
• Use any existing dataset and DAX logic
• Add contextual knowledge to your BI environment
• Enhance collaboration & organizational insights
• Extremely fast implementation
• Easy maintenance and low cost
• No servers or additional apps required
• Works anywhere PowerBI.com works

For more information and pricing, please visit accotool.com

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