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abhifx
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2 years ago

Unable to Replace Column data in Matrix Using Switch

Dear All   I have been trying to replicate the revenue statement in Power BI directly linked with a trial balance. However once i insert a format and link multi level data into Power BI, I am unabl...
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danextian
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2 years ago

Hi abhifx ,

 

It returns blank for the second row because [Total Sales] is blank.

 

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    abhifx
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    2 years ago

    I might have responded against the wrong reply. This is actually part of the problem as the total sales also get distributed among the sales heads. how to ignore the sub head and add the total? I also need the same to get percentage of each head against sales

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      danextian
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      2 years ago

      Hi abhifx ,

       

      The problem is that MIS Form flows to a blank category in Database for MIS which of course doesn't have an equivalent in Trial. You can't expect Power BI to know which accounts in Trial should be aggregated for Total Sale.

      This measure returns a value only if Line Item Desc is SALE, not Total Sale

      Total Sales =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( Trial[Value in Lac] ),
    'MIS Format'[Line Item Desc] = "SALE" 
)

      You can change this behaviour by using FILTER and wrapping 'MIS Format' in ALL. Your new measure would be:

      Total Sales =
CALCULATE (
    SUM ( Trial[Value in Lac] ),
    FILTER ( ALL ( 'MIS Format' ), 'MIS Format'[Line Item Desc] = "SALE" )
)

       

      This wil be tedious as you'll have to do that for all measures that return blank when they shouldn't. Alternatively, you can modify MIS Format so all category items that should be included in each Line Item Desc has its own line. For example, Total Int and Dept would have a line for Fin Charges and another one for Depreciation.

       

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        abhifx
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        2 years ago

        Dear danextian , Nailed it, it makes sense too. Thanks for going through my Power BI jungle and find out the issue.

         

        As for the alternative suggestion, I still need to do all this manually only as this format is very rigid. But that is ok, Just a one time activity. 

         

        I have an additional query if you don't mind, I need to do two more things.

         

        1) I want to divide each line by Total sales to get the percentage of sales as a separate column.

        2) Subtract the current month from the previous month and also get the percentage variance.