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Anonymous
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Calculated measure

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I need to calculate a new measure which allows me to calculate the weight to each country excluding the cash weight. In the example above the country allocation is 95.73% and there is therefore 4.27% cash in the portfolio. I need to divide each country weight by 0.9753 so that the country weight sums to 100%. How can I write a new measure to calculate that?

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Anonymous
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Superb! I'm never going to admit how long that took!!! I now have to understand the use of divide in your example why not use / ?

 

 

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MattAllington
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Try this pattern

 

Total=calculate(sum(table[weight]),all(table[country]))

new percent = divide(sum(table[weight]),[Total])



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Anonymous
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Superb! I'm never going to admit how long that took!!! I now have to understand the use of divide in your example why not use / ?

 

 

Divide has an auto "divide by zero error" protection built in. I just use it routinely rather than / even if there is no chance of div 0 errors. 



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
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