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jkoclejda
Helper I
Helper I

SWITCH + SELECTEDVALUE function doesn't work

Hi! I have a table with date, income statement categories and values. The table looks like below:

 

datecategoryvalue
2023-01-01margin1000
2023-01-01income3000
2023-01-01percentage margin 
2023-01-02margin1200
2023-01-02income5000
2023-01-02percentage margin 

 

I made a measure to create income statement:

statement = 
SWITCH(
  SELECTEDVALUE(table_name[category]),

  "percentage margin", [margin] / [income],

  SUM(table_name[value])
)

[margin] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "margin")
[income] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "income")

 

Unfortunately, as a result, I have an empty value under the "percentage margin" category. 

The function only worked when I created a separate table with categories with no relation to the table with values. Then the measure looked like this:

statement = 
SWITCH(
  SELECTEDVALUE(table_name_2[category]),

  "margin", [margin],

  "percentage margin", [margin] / [income],

  "income", [income]

)

 

But it isn't an option because the real table has much more categories and referring to each one slows down the entire visualization greatly.

 

I have no idea what could be wrong, that's why I'm asking for help or some advice.

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Anonymous
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Hi @jkoclejda ,

 

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DallasBaba
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Hi @jkoclejda 

Using a DIVIDE function will return a blank value if the denominator is zero or empty, which is a better approach than using the / operator sign.

 

Please try the following:

statement =
SWITCH(
SELECTEDVALUE(table_name[category]),

"percentage margin", DIVIDE([margin], [income]),

SUM(table_name[value])
)


[margin] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "margin")
[income] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "income")


================= OR ===================

statement =
SWITCH(
SELECTEDVALUE(table_name[category]),

"percentage margin", IF(ISBLANK([margin]) || ISBLANK([income]), BLANK(), DIVIDE([margin], [income])),

SUM(table_name[value])
)


[margin] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "margin")
[income] = CALCULATE(SUM(table_name[value]), table_name[category] = "income")

 

See relevant solution on stackoverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64438710/can-we-calculate-a-measure-with-percentage-in-power-bi-...

 

Please let me know if this help.

 

Thanks

Babatunde Dallas

Thanks
Dallas

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