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I am trying to create a line chart of the values 1-4 (whole numbers) over the course of a year, and cannot get Power BI to stop doing a count of. I have read several solutions and none of them seem to work.
Data is type 'whole number. Data summarization is set to 'don't summarize'. I don't know what else to do! Averaging makes the chart look relatively like what I am going for, but I don't understand why I can't just make a chart out of points with values.
Thanks!Stop the counting!
In my case, I was using Excel as source data and my column was in text type.
In PBI Desktop changed the data type to number and it worked.
You may take a look at https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Do-Not-Summarize-option-missing-for-Box-amp-Whisker/td-p/34....
I cannot imagine that this is even remotely that complicated. Can I seriously not create a line graph of actual values in a column without a count / average / sum - without going into the code? That simply cannot be.
I am having the same problem.
Did you find a way to deal with this?
 
					
				
				
			
		
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