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colverjustin
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Create a 'versus budget' as a table row

I have two tables, one for budget, one for actuals.

 

Both tables have sales and profit.

 

I want to create a Power BI table which has the columns - Sales... Profit

 

I want to have the rows as Actuals, Budget, Versus budget

 

So 

 

.......................Sales............Profit

Actual.............. X...................X

Budget............ X...................X

vs Budget....... X...................X

 

Whats the cleanest way of creating this please? 

 

Do i need to create new tables? What DAX measures should I create?

 

Any help would be amazing.

 

Thanks so much

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colverjustin
Frequent Visitor

This is great, but I'm not sure it works exactly for me. As I understand, calculation groups can be used for creating e.g. a YTD filter against any metric that you choose. 

 

So you can select e.g. Sales, or Profit, and it would provide your time filter.

 

However, in my example, I have Sales and Profit actuals in one table, and Sales and Profit Budget in another table. And I want to compare the actuals to the budget for both metrics.

 

Does that make sense? Or perhaps I've not understand calculation groups properly.

 

THanks for your help

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@colverjustin , i think calculation groups can help

 

Calculation Groups- Measure Slicer, Measure Header Grouping, Measure to dimension conversion. Complex Table display : https://youtu.be/qMNv67P8Go0

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