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bphc
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Aggregating with Slicers Related to Structured Columns

Hello,

 

I am connecting Power BI to a SharePoint Online List that has a dozen or so columns that permit multi-select choice and Person columns. For example (I can't show example of person b/c it'll show real people in my org...):
Multi-select list.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I import this data into Power BI, it creates an ID column for me informing of the List row. I want to show visualizations that have, for example, Department as the x-axis, and sum of Amount as the Y-axis. Then I would also have slicers for other columns. 

 

I have the option to expand the data or leave it as a list (or Table in the case of multi-select Person). If I leave the columns containing lists/tables, then I cannot seem to get the slicers or axes to work correctly. If I expand the columns, rows are duplicated and the aggregations are off.

 

Ideally, I thought I'd be able to find a way to create slicers that relate properly to values in unexpanded structured columns, but I haven't seen how to do that and Google is coming up short for me there.

 

If I expand the columns, I've been trying to create a measure that would groupby the List Row ID and then sum the first entry, but I'm struggling to figure out how to do that as well.

 

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Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

Thank you 

 

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bphc
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Problem resolved. I structured the schema differently and had to turn on bi-directional cross filtering.

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bphc
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Problem resolved. I structured the schema differently and had to turn on bi-directional cross filtering.

parry2k
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@bphc I think you need to create a separate page for each measure.



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