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asdf1608
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3 years ago
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Through measure the multiple values are wrong

I am converting the tableau dashboard to power BI. I find this very difficult. There is a field "Discount" which gets divided by parameter "Parameter 1".   This converted value is multiplied...
  • Wilson_'s avatar
    3 years ago

    Hello asdf1608,

     

    This is also easily done in Power BI! 🙂

     

    Try this for your measure 2 instead:

    Measure 2 = 
    SUMX (
        Sheet1,
        [Conversion] * Sheet1[Row ID]
    )

     

    The reason your original Measure 2 wasn't working is because you wanted the calculation to go row by row, but Power BI doesn't know that unless you use an iterator function (like SUMX); instead of going row by row, multiplying the row ID and conversion together then adding it all up at the end, it was adding up all the row IDs, adding up all the discounts, then multiplying the two numbers together (ie: 1,583.99 * 51963915).

     


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