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Greg_Deckler
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10 years ago

Dealing with Measure Totals

This one has come up quite a bit recently. The issue surrounds using Measures in Table visualizations with a Total row. The complaint is that the "Total" row is "wrong" for the measure. Technically, ...
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Anonymous
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4 years ago

It is shocking that after a number of years Power BI still does not offer an option to show the sum of the above columns as the total. Outside of a table - e.g. KPI - this "solution" breaks. This is disappointing.

  • chris_2022's avatar
    chris_2022
    New Member
    4 years ago

    100% agree. Ridiculous that a BI tool would behave this way. 

    • Yanou's avatar
      Yanou
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      4 years ago

      I'm totally agréé with you. In a visual table or others, the total row should have to be correct anyway the formula measure. Like in Excel with pivot table for instance. I would like PBI to correct this point to focus my reflection on the row ans not on the total.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      2 years ago
      It's so easy to do in Tableau.