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Hi PowerBI users,
I'm trying to customise the data labels but I'm facing the issue here.
Here is stacked bar chart. I put....
Cost on X axis
Name on Y axis
Year on colour legend
The formula I use to calculate the custom labels
Year + Cost (label) =
VAR C = CALCULATE(SUM('Table1'[Total cost]), ALLEXCEPT('Table1','Table1'[VBD Name], 'Table1'[Year], Table1[Type]))
RETURN FORMAT('Table1'[Year], "YYYY") &": "& FORMAT(C,"$#,0")
as you can see when filtered the "Type" as C the cost in custom label and cost in the tooltip is the same
BUT when filtered "Type" with multiple options, the cost numbers go weird.
Custom label aggregration is changed to "First" and "Last" instead (cuz it's seen as text, it doesn't sum for me)
* Is there any way to calculate number when filtering multiple types? I want it to be dynamically changed when filtered.
I guess there is something wrong with the formula but I don't know how to solve this. Please help 😞
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