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Hi everyone,
I have generated a matrix full of measures a bit like this
and the result is brilliant, showing something like this:
However, i'm trying to format the values (e.g. Area to 1 decimal place, Tonnes rounded to nearest number etc)
and so i attempted a format function:
and suddenly all these blank rows show up with no data (but is all the available dates in my date table which is one of the columns)
Does anyone know (1) is there another way to format my numbers in the matrix full of measures and / or why the table suddenly show so many empty rows?
I ran into the same issue, using the LEN function to return blanks in case of zero characters worked for me:
VAR Result = .... (your measure that includes formatting)
RETURN
@ssze , Difficult to tell without looking at data.
The formatting it changing it into text. That might have cause this issue. There was the solution proposed by Guyinacube using external tools. See if that can help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnx7QUVYME
measure slicer
https://radacad.com/change-the-column-or-measure-value-in-a-power-bi-visual-by-selection-of-the-slic...
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Slicer-MTD-QTD-YTD-to-filter-dates-using-the-slicer/td-p/50...
thanks @amitchandak , i had a look at the youtube and it looks good (although i'm still struggling to wrap my head around it a bit, as the values are not showing as i want).
i tidied up my example and hope this works for a download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13WUUB3H8jkjeApp5P-kmnr_srXeJSx7B/view?usp=sharing
the top table has all the data i want,
but i want to format it to the table below (i have compiled all the measures into a matrix)so i can have 2 layer headers
however, i want to be able to format the columns differently
e.g. area to 1 decimal place,
volume tonnes to nearest digit, but t/ha to 1 decimal place, sales to $ etc etc.
Would really appreciate any feed back. Been going through google searches for ages now and can't come up with much more!
Cheers,
Hello,
i formatted already the first 6 columns, I let you do the rest 😉
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