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jasemilly
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Basic table using Deneb

Happy new year to everyone!!

I am following How to Fix Measure totals with Deneb , by Gregg from Enterprise DNA. I have followed this tutorial the orignal blog that the video is based on vega-lite-table-using-text-marks  and another solution I found via stackover flow.

I run into the same issue with all 3 versions.  I have one row data that has all the values for each column sat on top of each other.

Value all on top of each otherValue all on top of each other

I am passing 3 fields Year & Month are both dimensions and Revenue is a measure.

here is my code.

thanks for all help

 

 

 

{
  "height": {"Step": 50},
  "data": {"name": "dataset"},
  "layer": [
    {
      "transform": [
        {
          "window": [
            {
              "op": "row_number",
              "as": "row_num"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "calculate": "format(datum.Revenue,'.1f')",
          "as": "Revenue"
        },
        {
          "fold": [
            "Revenue",
            "FiscalYear",
            "Month"
           
            
          ]
        }
      ],
      "mark": "text",
      "encoding": {
        "y": {
          "field": "row_num",
          "type": "ordinal",
          "axis": {
            "grid": true,
            "tickBand": "extent",
            "title": false,
            "labels": false
          }
        },
        "text": {
          "field": "value",
          "type": "nominal"
        },
        "x": {
          "field": "key",
          "type": "nominal",
          "axis": {
            "orient": "top",
            "labelAngle": 0,
            "title": null,
            "domain": true,
            "ticks": false,
            "grid": false,
            "tickBand": "extent"
          },
          "scale": {"padding": 15}
        }
      },
      "config": {
        "view": {"stroke": null}
      }
    },
    {
      "transform": [
        {
          "window": [
            {
              "op": "row_number",
              "as": "row_num"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "fold": [
            "Revenue",
            "FiscalYear",
            "Month"
          ]
        },
        {
          "filter": "isFinite(datum.Value)"
        }
      ],
      "mark": {
        "type": "text",
        "color": "firebrick",
        "align": "center",
        "y": -25
      },
      "encoding": {
        "x": {
          "field": "key",
          "axis": {"orient": "top"}
        },
        "text": {
          "aggregate": "sum",
          "field": "value",
          "impute": {"value": null},
          "format": ",.2f"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

 

 

 

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Greg_Deckler
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@jasemilly I'm not sure this is the problem but you have "Step" instead of "step" in your "height" property at the top. I attached the JSON template below. It is also available on MicrosoftHatesGreg github repository. Also the original PBIX file. 

 



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jasemilly
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Thank you, I copied the visual for each of my different tests, I went over every line so many times apart from the first one!  Don't know weather to laugh or cry ! thanks again.

@jasemilly Trust me, I've been there! Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes!



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Greg_Deckler
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@jasemilly I'm not sure this is the problem but you have "Step" instead of "step" in your "height" property at the top. I attached the JSON template below. It is also available on MicrosoftHatesGreg github repository. Also the original PBIX file. 

 



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DAX For Humans

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