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danielec
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Chart for multiple boolean columns

Hello everyone!

I have a simple form collecting a daily report of activities being accomplished.

 

Data example:

DaySubmitterActivity 1Activity 2Activity 3
1/3/2020agent1truetruefalse
1/3/2020agent2truefalsefalse
1/3/2020agent3falsetruefalse
2/3/2020agent1falsetrue

true

2/3/2020agent2falsefalsefalse
2/3/2020agent4truetruefalse

and so on...

 

I'd like to have a barchart with the count of "true" for each activity during a specified time period (single or multiple days). It would also be useful a timechart with Activity1, 2 ... and so on as series and the count of each one accomplished per day.

 

Is it possible?

 

Thanks in advance!

Daniele

 

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BA_Pete
Super User
Super User

Hi @danielec ,

 

As @Greg_Deckler said above, boolean can be a bit of a PITA in measures.
If you are able to convert your data to text the following measure should work fine for each activity:

 

 

_activity1qty = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNT('table'[Activity 1]),
    'table'[Activity 1] = "TRUE"
)

 

 

Once you have the three measures, stick them in a stacked column like this:

 

Stacked Column Chart - three measures all in 'Values', Day in 'Axis'Stacked Column Chart - three measures all in 'Values', Day in 'Axis'

 

 



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BA_Pete
Super User
Super User

Hi @danielec ,

 

As @Greg_Deckler said above, boolean can be a bit of a PITA in measures.
If you are able to convert your data to text the following measure should work fine for each activity:

 

 

_activity1qty = 
CALCULATE(
    COUNT('table'[Activity 1]),
    'table'[Activity 1] = "TRUE"
)

 

 

Once you have the three measures, stick them in a stacked column like this:

 

Stacked Column Chart - three measures all in 'Values', Day in 'Axis'Stacked Column Chart - three measures all in 'Values', Day in 'Axis'

 

 



Now accepting Kudos! If my post helped you, why not give it a thumbs-up?

Proud to be a Datanaut!




Thank you all! After I transformed the field to numeric everything was easy.

 

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

Yeah, I believe that COUNTA will count boolean values. Could also use COUNTROWS. Believe it or not, I often find annoying limitations with boolean things in Power BI so I tend to use 1's and 0's instead.

 



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