pbiplintRules / Formatting
First letter of objects must be capitalized
What it checks
Tables, measures, hierarchies, calculated columns, calculated tables, and calculation groups whose first character has an upper case form and is not upper case.
Why it matters
Object names are the model's user interface: they appear in the field list, on axis labels, in tooltips, and in every export, and nothing capitalizes them for you. A field list that mixes "Sales Amount" with "total cost" reads as unfinished, and it tells a report author that the two fields came from different places and may not be equally trustworthy. Capitalizing the first letter costs nothing, survives every refresh, and is the convention nearly every published model follows. A name starting with a digit or a symbol is not flagged, because those characters have no upper case form.
How to fix it
Rename the object in Power BI Desktop, which updates the visuals and the DAX that reference it, or edit the name in the TMDL file.
Quirks
- Data columns are not in scope; only calculated and calculated-table columns are checked.