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Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

FrankWe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:41:31 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem to create a DAX measure calculating an average value.

I have a combined bar and line chart. The bars are showing the total numbers of rows in a table "visits" per month on the X axis. So far so good. Now I inserted a date slicer tot select a date range on yearmonth level. The yearmonth values are taken from a calendar table. using the slicer filters the data to the selected time period.

Now my problem: I would like to have a horizontal line in the chart showing the average of visits based on the selected time period. That means when I have a total of 600 visits in 5 months the horizontal line should be at a value of 120 for each month.

I know how to get the start and end values of the slicer and also the total number of visits in the selected time period. But I have no idea how to get this horizontal line showing the same average value in each month.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Frank

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

FreemanZ — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:15:15 GMT

hi FrankWe ,

Constant Average Line is a standard built-in feature, check this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-analytics-pane

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

FrankWe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:34:09 GMT

Hi, thank you for this info, but I think the constant average line is not available for a stacked bar chart as I need this to show the different visit types in the bar. Sorry for not mentioning that. When I look into the analytics pane there is now average bar available.

The chart should look like the one below. The red line is the average line and it should change every time when I change the time period in the date slicer.

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

sjoerdvn — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:28:50 GMT

I have created something similar, but you should be able to adjust to your own measures and date dimension table. crucial is the use of ALLSELECTED to give you the filter/slicer context:

avg montly visits = CALCULATE(AVERAGEX(VALUES('dim_date'[month_year]),[# visits]), ALLSELECTED('dim_date'))

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

FrankWe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:09:44 GMT

sjoerdvn: Hi, thank your this. I tried to implement this, but the result is that the line is showing me the total number of visits in the selected time period and not the average 🤔

My measure looks like this now:

VAR AverageVisits2 = CALCULATE(

AVERAGEX(

VALUES('Calendar'[MonthYear]),

COUNT(Visits[VisitID])),

ALLSELECTED('Calendar')

)

What is wrong whit this?

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

sjoerdvn — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:01:45 GMT

since you're not using a measure, you have to add a calculate to force the context.

VAR AverageVisits2 = CALCULATE( AVERAGEX( VALUES('Calendar'[MonthYear]), CALCULATE(COUNT(Visits[VisitID]))) ,ALLSELECTED('Calendar') )

Re: Problem with DAX query calculating an average value

FrankWe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:12:10 GMT

@sjoerdvn: Many thanks for your help. You are my hero 😊 And it shows me that I will have to learn so much more to understand more of the DAX functionality 🤔