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SanjeevMurthy
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6 years ago
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Different format in Target column

Hi,   I have a field [Target] which has target value for each of the Metric line item. The targets are not in the same data type format. Example Metric 1 - 20% Metric 2 - 2 Metric 3 - 2.5   R...
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    v-xuding-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi SanjeevMurthy ,

    As epappu said, it can be implemented with TEXT type. For now, it is not supported to change different format and stain the original data type except text. 

    I created a measure use the function of IF and FORMAT. You can use it to show the values. When you want to calculate them, you could use the original column. 

    Measure = IF(SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Metric]) = "Metric1",FORMAT(SUM('Table'[Values]),"00%"),SUM('Table'[Values]))

    Best Regards,

    Xue Ding

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Kudos are nice too.

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SanjeevMurthy
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6 years ago

I need to do the calculation based on actual and target values.

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

So, since I am unable to see the dataset/data model at my end, I am assuming the following and will try give you a response accordingly. Hope this helps you.

 

Assuming your table is having two columns as below, you can try creating a measure with a formula to convert the value in the column Target by using VALUE function something similar to:

=DIVIDE((Actual - VALUE(Target), Actual)

 

Please note the above is not tested, but VALUE is supposed to convert Text to a number, so that should help your calculation, if you are looking to see the difference between Actual and Variance. You can also covert the above measure to a % in the modelling table to get the % difference.


Table:

Target (Text)Actual (Decimal)
20%15
21
2.53

 

Hope the above helps you.