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Buttons that change data labels
Hi all,
I got a task from my colleagues and I do have totally no option how to do it.
Basics: We do have a table who contains Sales Documents, division and other measures
Requirement:
- Creating visuals (that show i.e. how many Sales Documents were created per division)
- Create two buttons in the report: "Absolute" and "Percentage".
Clicking on either button should change the data labels of all visuals on the page (or bettto display the values either in total or in percentage of total.
I.e. Clicking the "Absolute" button changes the count in Division "O" from "1.100" to "10%".
And I do habe absolutely no clue how to do this without programming something fancy, which is critical, cause I couldn't code for my life...
Anonymous If you want them to be able to choose, you'll need to get a little fancy with measures AND bookmark or parameter slicer. If you want to display both, you only need measures.
Create new measures:
Absolute Value = COUNT(Table[SalesDocuments])
Percent = DIVIDE([Absolute Value], CALCULATE([Absolute Value], ALL(Table[Division]))
Create a new table visual, with both measures in it and Division.
Now for the fancy part:
Option A: Slicer
Click 'Enter Data'
Paste this table:
Show Value As Absolute Percent Put Slicer[Show Value As] column in a slicer visual.
Create a new measure:
Value = SWITCH(SELECTEDVALUE(Slicer[Show Value As]), "Absolute", [Absolute Value], "Percent", FORMAT([Percent], "#.00%"), [Absolute Value])Put the [Value] measure in your table and test the slicer.
Option B: Bookmarks
Duplicate the table. Remove [Percentage] from one table and remove [Absolute Value] from the other table. Hide the Percentage table, create a new bookmark, name it 'Absolute Value'. Click the three dots and untick 'data' and 'current page'. Now unhide percentage table and hide absolute value table. Repeat bookmark creation process, but name it 'Percentage'.
Add a button for each bookmark.
11 Replies
- AllisonKennedy
Community Champion
Anonymous If you want them to be able to choose, you'll need to get a little fancy with measures AND bookmark or parameter slicer. If you want to display both, you only need measures.
Create new measures:
Absolute Value = COUNT(Table[SalesDocuments])
Percent = DIVIDE([Absolute Value], CALCULATE([Absolute Value], ALL(Table[Division]))
Create a new table visual, with both measures in it and Division.
Now for the fancy part:
Option A: Slicer
Click 'Enter Data'
Paste this table:
Show Value As Absolute Percent Put Slicer[Show Value As] column in a slicer visual.
Create a new measure:
Value = SWITCH(SELECTEDVALUE(Slicer[Show Value As]), "Absolute", [Absolute Value], "Percent", FORMAT([Percent], "#.00%"), [Absolute Value])Put the [Value] measure in your table and test the slicer.
Option B: Bookmarks
Duplicate the table. Remove [Percentage] from one table and remove [Absolute Value] from the other table. Hide the Percentage table, create a new bookmark, name it 'Absolute Value'. Click the three dots and untick 'data' and 'current page'. Now unhide percentage table and hide absolute value table. Repeat bookmark creation process, but name it 'Percentage'.
Add a button for each bookmark.
I think by doing this I have to do it for all values I want to show in both absolute and total isn't it?
Cause the Sales document mentioned above was just one example of like, 5... there's no "general option" to do it isn't it?
Like, I got an idea but it surely is more effort than to do it for each of the respective columns manually...
- amitchandak
Super User
Anonymous measure slicer is one option. Bookmark is another
Bookmark: https://radacad.com/bookmarks-and-buttons-making-power-bi-charts-even-more-interactive
measure slicer
https://radacad.com/change-the-column-or-measure-value-in-a-power-bi-visual-by-selection-of-the-slicer-parameter-table-pattern
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Slicer-MTD-QTD-YTD-to-filter-dates-using-the-slicer/td-p/500115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnx7QUVYME - AllisonKennedy
Anonymous The same slicer can update the values among all measures, but you'll need to create a measure for each calculation, so if 5 metrics, 10 measures.
I tried your method and stumbled over a few questions, which I'll ad in Italic to your instructions:
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Create new measures:
Absolute Value = COUNT(Table[SalesDocuments])
Percent = DIVIDE([Absolute Value], CALCULATE([Absolute Value], ALL(Table[Division]))
Create a new table visual, with both measures in it and Division. Do you mean I should create a visuals that is a table and put both measures in or do you mean I should create a new table in the "Data section", name it "visual" and out both measures in it?
Now for the fancy part:
Option A: Slicer
Click 'Enter Data'
Paste this table:
Show Value As Absolute Percentage Put Slicer[Show Value As] column in a slicer visual. I think that means I should name the Table Slicer[Show Value As]? If I don't and enter the dax formula below it tells me that it "can't find table Slicer [Show Value As]".
Create a new measure:
Value = SWITCH(Slicer[Show Value As]
, "Absolute", [Absolute Value]
, "Percent", [Percent])
like said, if the Name of Slicer table is just "Slicer" and the one of the first is "Show Value As", formula doesn't work, it seems to expect a table as expression.
Put the [Value] measure in your table and test the slicer Which table? The visual that is a table or a data table? If yes, which one?"
Sorry for the partly stupid and very specific questions, but I was a little confused by the meanings of the word table and I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere cause it didn't work out in the end...
Help would be much appreciated cause I thiink your method is probably the best one for my usecase
- AllisonKennedy
Anonymous Excellent questions. I have added a file to my original post that hopefully makes it more clear. I also updated the DAX to use SELECTEDVALUE and to account for if there is no selection. I also added formatting to get the percent formatted properly.
Let me know if you have any other queries. Please @ mention me so I don't miss it. 🙂
Hi AllisonKennedy thank you very much for the answers!
I understand now how you did it, however for whatever reason I wasn't able to achieve the same results. I created a dummy dataset to try it in those simplified conditions, but it didn't work as well. So I would very much appreciate if you could take a swift look and tell me where I've gone wrong... From my point of view I did it exactly as instructed...
Only things I changed were the names of the tables (but I adapted them in the formula), choose "SaTy" instead of Division but, like said, I adjusted the formula accordingly and I removed the Measures from the Value field in the visual to achieve the desired look. But also adding them back didn't change a thing an I realy can't tell why it doesn't work. I first thought its because the Measures aren't named exactly equal to the values in the slicer, but the formula for the Value-measure takes care of that so can't be that...
Can't attach samples so I'll just send screenshots:
- AllisonKennedy
Anonymous You made the same error I made in my original post - the measure says 'Percent' but the slicer says 'Percentage'. They must both match. Update your Value measure to say 'Percentage' and it should work.
