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Anonymous
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Creating Measures on data from a Sharepoint List

Hi all,

 

I have a dashboard built on an excel sheet and it works fine.

There are many measures created on it and as expected they work

For Example: 

Month =
FORMAT(Sheet1[Start time], "MMMM")
 
I have now created a Form that connects to Sharepoint via Flow.
So all my data is now held on the Sharepoint List.
 
I am now in the process of recreating the dashboard with the new connection - I opted for recreating it, for more experience but also because Sharepoint has abbreviated/changed some of the names of the columns.
 
When attempting to use the above formula to recreate the measure I am met with the following error message:
 
'A single value for column 'DateofAssessment' in table 'Customer Satisfaction Responses' cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula referes to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count or sum to get a single result'
 
How can I get round this?
The data is the same data, and also has the same formatting.
 
The only difference is that one is Excel --> Power BI and the other is Forms --> Flow --> Sharepoint --> Power BI
 
I am totally stumped and have no idea how to fix this.
 
If you need examples, please let me know.
 
Any help would be great.
 
Thanks,
Chris
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rajendraongole1
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Looks like you have created a measure instead of a calculated column. If you use the same exact code, but as a calculated column, you shouldn't have an issue. The problem is that measures are calculated over the entire data set unless otherwise given a filter context. So the error message in that case is accurate.





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rajendraongole1
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Looks like you have created a measure instead of a calculated column. If you use the same exact code, but as a calculated column, you shouldn't have an issue. The problem is that measures are calculated over the entire data set unless otherwise given a filter context. So the error message in that case is accurate.





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Anonymous
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Thanks for this!

It worked as a column - but now I am wondering why it worked as a measure before, yet it wont now?

That's a side note

 

I'm just glad that doing it as a column is now working!

Thanks for your help! 

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