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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Don't see the "Analyze - Explain the decrease" option after September update

Hello friends, In September's update there supposed to be a nice feature of explaining decrease/increase. It is described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=817&v=moTQJlnClJw The p...
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  • kimani's avatar
    kimani
    8 years ago

    Hello,

     

    Explain the increase / decrease has a few limitations with the first release, which is why it is still in preview.

     

    You do not need to enable the preview switch as it is turned on for all. Here's a list of the type of queries it does not yet handle:

     

    • TopN filters
    • Include/exclude filters
    • Measure filters
    • Non-additive measures and aggregates
    • Show value as
    • Categorical columns on X-axis unless it defines a sort by column that is scalar. If using a hierarchy, then every column in the active hierarchy has to match this condition
    • Non-numeric measures: model measure support is limited to sum and count only right now.
    • Limitation in data conectivity
      • Direct query
      • Live connect
      • On-prem RS
      • Embedding

     

    Keep an eye out for future releases with improvements.

v-yulgu-msft's avatar
v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

The "Analyze - Explain the decrease" option is available in my test.

 

But, if there is only one column bar in chart, this option will disappear.

 

Could you share your sample data or pbix file so that I can test in my environment?

 

Regards,
Yuliana Gu

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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8 years ago

I have been experimenting a touch with trying to get this to work, and have finally managed to find the feature and understand under what circumstances it appears to work.

 

It appears that it doesn't work on some types of measures.

 

I had a measure that was 

CALCULATE(COUNTROWS('Table'), 'Table'[BooleanColumn]))

My Boolean column was used to identify if a particular outcome had occurred.

In this style, the Analyze feature did not appear.

 

However if I change the boolean column to a 'Whole Number' type, so all replaced with 1s and 0s and changed my measure to 

SUM('Table'[NumberVersionOfBooleanColumn])

In this method the Analyze feature DOES appear.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    In my case I don't even have a calculated measure. I have displayed normal table data values in a bar chart. Nevertheless I cannot see the new functionality. Does anyone have a clue?

    thanks and br