This is a brief post to ask you all for your help in getting a Power BI Desktop change through. Please give me 3 mins of your time.
Note below the default aggregation behaviour of all these columns in the Calendar table is "SUM". No one wants to SUM a Year or Month Number column. Yes, sometimes you do want to sum a column in a dimension table but it is the exception, not the rule.
If you agree, please click the link below and vote to have the default behaviour changed.
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It's something I've always found very annoying
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