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Raul
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9 years ago
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Difference between two columns or rows

Hello everybody, I need to find the difference between two columns or two rows within a table or matrix of values. I have the following situation:   YEAR ZONE       EAST W...
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  • dkay84_PowerBI's avatar
    dkay84_PowerBI
    9 years ago

    Create a measure called "Difference"

     

    Difference =
IF (
    HASONEVALUE ( 'Table'[YEAR] ),
    BLANK (),
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Table'[AMOUNT] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[YEAR] = MAX ( 'Table'[YEAR] ) )
    )
        - CALCULATE (
            SUM ( 'Table'[AMOUNT] ),
            FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[YEAR] = MIN ( 'Table'[YEAR] ) )
        )
)

    Then a measure called "%Inc"

     

    %Inc =
DIVIDE (
    [Difference],
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Table'[AMOUNT] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[YEAR] = MIN ( 'Table'[YEAR] ) )
    )
)

    Then just shrink the columns in your matrix that have no data so they don't show up, and make sure to turn the row totals on:

     

    Oh and change the formatting/style for the measures as desired.

Raul's avatar
Raul
Post Patron
9 years ago

I have corrected the measure and solved the error but the visual result is not as expected. Any ideas?

dkay84_PowerBI's avatar
dkay84_PowerBI
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

You need to put Zone in the rows, Year in the column, and Amount, Difference and %Inc as values.

  • Raul's avatar
    Raul
    Post Patron
    9 years ago

    Hello dkay84_PowerBI!

    I have one problem with shrink the columns in a matrix visualization. I create this visualization:

    When I show the matrix like this, shrink the columns with values to 0:

     

     

    and I refresh the data, the shrink columns are displayed again.

    Is there any solution to avoid this?

    Thank you.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Hi did you fix this issue?