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Hi everyone,
I have being problems calculating a total on a Matrix:
I have this structure:
| Batch |
IdBatch |
| Amount |
Connection 1-N with Component table
| Component |
| IdComponent |
IdBatch |
Connected 1-N with Failure table
| Failure |
| IdComponent |
| AmoutFailures |
| Date |
So, with this information I create a view like this:
| IdBatch | Date | Amount | AmountFailures | |
| 1 | 01/04/2024 | 100 | 2 | |
| 1 | 02/04/2024 | 100 | 5 | |
| 2 | 01/04/2024 | 300 | 2 | |
| 3 | 10/04/2024 | 500 | 0 | |
| 1 | 10/04/2024 | 100 | 10 |
But when I want to see the relation between number of failures and batch amout, I can calculate de total of failures in the right way, but I am sum more batch amout that I should do
The right result should be like this:
| Batch | Year | Amount | AmoutFailures |
| 1 | 2024 | 100 | 17 |
| 2 | 2024 | 300 | 2 |
| 3 | 2024 | 500 | 0 |
But I am getting this result:
| Batch | Year | Amount | AmoutFailures |
| 1 | 2024 | 300 | 17 |
| 2 | 2024 | 300 | 2 |
| 3 | 2024 | 500 | 0 |
As you can see, I am summing the batch amout 3 times.
Maybe, the way I am creating the view is wrong but I don't know how I should create it to import and work easily in Power BI.
Thank you in advance
Hello @bvramilo,
Can you please try the following:
Total Batch Amount =
SUMX(
VALUES(Batch[IdBatch]),
CALCULATE(
MAX(Batch[Amount])
)
)
Thank you so much for the quickly answers, they made me think and prepare and simple example that helps to find the solution:
When I am talking about a view, I mean a database view (data from multiple tables together) and that's here where I made a mistake
My model was like that:
That's the data
So, when I go level down in the grid the behaviour was like this:
As you can see, power bi is multipling the batch amount by the number of registers so the total amout is wrong.
But, as I said before, to show you a simple model I create this one:
It works well cause Power BI knows the amout of batch is not a part of the registers.
Now I have to find how to make it work without both direction relation between Revision and Batch. I read that is not recommended
Sorry for make you waste your time and thank you so much.
Regards,
Hi,
You need to put the amount column in the row and failures in the value of a matrix visual. you may use date as slicer or in the row above amount in the matrix visual as well.
I guess with "view" you mean a table or matrix visual, right? assuming that you could just use the amount column from the Batch table and make sure it is not using it as an implicit measure, so:
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