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Anonymous
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Countif in New Table

Hello -

 

I am very new to Power BI and I am trying to create a visualization of the status of various projects. My Data looks something like this: 

ProjectStep 1Step 2Step 3
ACompletedIn ProgressNot Started
BIn ProgressIn ProgressIn Progress
CCompletedCompletedCompleted
DCompletedNot StartedNot Started
EIn ProgressIn ProgressNot Started

 

There are a total of 9 steps and about 300 total projects. My goal is to count the status for each step to then display as a chart. I want the data to look something like this: 

 

Step CompletedIn ProgressNot Started
Step 1320
Step 2131
Step 3113

 

Whenever I try to create a calculated column I can only get the count for one of the steps. Can someone help get me on the correct path? 

 

Much appreciated. 

Jack

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Hi jack_oplav,

 

To achieve your requirement, click column [Step1], [Step2] and [Step3], then click unpivot columns like below:

1.PNG 

 

Then, click column [value] and click pivot columns based on column [Project], the result is like below:

2.PNG 

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

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Anonymous
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Hello -

 

I am very new to Power BI and I am trying to create a visualization of the status of various projects. My Data looks something like this: 

ProjectStep 1Step 2Step 3
ACompletedIn ProgressNot Started
BIn ProgressIn ProgressIn Progress
CCompletedCompletedCompleted
DCompletedNot StartedNot Started
EIn ProgressIn ProgressNot Started

 

There are a total of 9 steps and about 300 total projects. My goal is to count the status for each step to then display as a chart. I want the data to look something like this: 

 

Step CompletedIn ProgressNot Started
Step 1320
Step 2131
Step 3113

 

Whenever I try to create a calculated column I can only get the count for one of the steps. Can someone help get me on the correct path? 

 

Much appreciated. 

Jack

Hi jack_oplav,

 

To achieve your requirement, click column [Step1], [Step2] and [Step3], then click unpivot columns like below:

1.PNG 

 

Then, click column [value] and click pivot columns based on column [Project], the result is like below:

2.PNG 

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

Anonymous
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Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for. 

 

I created the new table (Table 2) by duplicating the original table (Table 1) and doing the pivot steps you suggested. When I create the chart based on the Table 2, it does not filter in the report for Table 1 filters. I know the two tables need to be related, but I thought that duplicating Table 1 would automatically update the values for Table 2. 

 

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

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