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

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

How to Get Started

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

Connect it to your Power BI model
Configure fields that define context (product, period, department, etc.)
Provide a SQL table for writeback
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

Browser Compatibility

Not currently compatible with Safari on macOS.

accoCOMMENT - Writeback for contextual text based commentary and ratings

od: Accobat A/S