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ramakrishnavvss
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'Count of' is automatically considered while dragging sales column to Y axis of Bar chart

When i drag a Sales column to Y axis of bar chart, it is automatically showing as 'Count of Sales'. I wanted to see only Sales.

 

In Data, i have set Summarization=Don't summarise for Sales column. But i still see this issue. Is there a place where i can set X, Y axis also to Don't summarize? or How can i overcome this?

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @ramakrishnavvss ,

 

Agree with @indkitty . Because the sales field is in text type, and your visual is a bar chart, you can not display a value like "$ 1159200" with the text type. You have to insert the number type field to the x-axis to display.

Please go to the Power Query Editor, select the column and then click the 'Detect Data Type'. 

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Click 'Close&Apply', now the sales field is what you want.

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Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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Hi @ramakrishnavvss ,

 

Agree with @indkitty . Because the sales field is in text type, and your visual is a bar chart, you can not display a value like "$ 1159200" with the text type. You have to insert the number type field to the x-axis to display.

Please go to the Power Query Editor, select the column and then click the 'Detect Data Type'. 

vstephenmsft_0-1658200238111.png

vstephenmsft_1-1658200260755.png

Click 'Close&Apply', now the sales field is what you want.

vstephenmsft_3-1658200399711.png

 

 

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

indkitty
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Hi ramakrishnavvss,

 

Noticed your sales column is text format, could you change the format to currency format?

Let me know how it goes.

PaulDBrown
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Create a measure  for sales using:

Sum Sales = SUM(Table[Sales])

and drag the measure into the Y-Axis





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