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3 years ago
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Best data modeling approach

Hello everyone As a starting point I've got 1 single flat table with several information about services and their attributes:   All the columns like Service Time, Support Time etc. are r...
  • v-yueyunzh-msft's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hi , PBI-Enthusiast 

    According to your description, you want to get this table . Rught?

    For your needs, your Service A belongs to one end table, and the rest belongs to the fact table. I don't recommend that you use many-to-many relationships to maintain your inter-table relationships.

    I use the following table relationship:

    I create the 'Service A' table in Power Query Editor:

    let
        Source = Table.Distinct(Table.SelectColumns(#"Fact Table" ,{ "Key A","Service A","Service A Description" }))
    in
        Source

    And we need to unpivot the fact table :

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("rZHPCsIwDMZfZfQ8IUmzWr2tTyB4HDv476qgB6dPbxPr5sApQj8oX1Lo72ubpjGIaEqzrgHEN6pYIFnZDs/tqyoW4JYAxawgiP6hr+NaHc6X07FAbdtyMoIrlyIoeicSoldiHzBu3/hyKHzjz/0i8eUpN9FwY/SjB7zaMPDtL76rOPHF76L/foj7HyKilCC+VWUewkREtiFYaxNffKfKOQRmTnzxvSrjENoH", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Key A" = _t, #"Service A" = _t, #"Service A Description" = _t, #"Key B" = _t, #"Service B" = _t, #"Service B Description" = _t, #"Service Time" = _t, #"Support Time" = _t, Classification = _t, Responsible = _t, Criticality = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Key A", Int64.Type}, {"Service A", type text}, {"Service A Description", type text}, {"Key B", Int64.Type}, {"Service B", type text}, {"Service B Description", type text}, {"Service Time", type text}, {"Support Time", type text}, {"Classification", type text}, {"Responsible", type text}, {"Criticality", type text}}),
        #"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"Key A", "Service A", "Service A Description", "Key B", "Service B", "Service B Description"}, "Attribute", "Value")
    in
        #"Unpivoted Columns"

    Then we apply the data to Power Bi Desktop ,here are the steps in Power Bi Desktop you can refer to :

    (1)We need to click "New Column" to  create a calculated column in 'Fact Table':

    Group = IF([Attribute] in {"Service Time","Support Time"} , "Group A" , IF([Attribute] in {"Classification","Responsible"} , "Group B" , "Group C"))

    (2)Then we need to add a hirearchy in this table:

    We can click the three dots in the right of the 'Fact Table'[Group] and click 'Create hirearchy' and then add the [Attribute] to this hirearchy.

    (3)Then we can create a measure:

    Measure = IF( HASONEVALUE('Fact Table'[Service B]) , MAX('Fact Table'[Value]))

     (4)Then we put the field we need on the Matrix visual and then we can get this:

     

     

    Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

     

    Best Regards,

    Aniya Zhang

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