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Displaying data from SharePoint list into a simple bar chart
Hi Tom898
Your data source needs to be transformed so each column name after Date becomes a category with another column corresponding its values. That would be something like
Sort 6
Sort 4
Sort 8
Store 6
Store 10
Store 6
In order to do that, go the query editor, select the first three columns, go to transform and select unpivot. You can rename the generated columns called attribute and value as desired. Those 7s'es should now be in one column with their corresponding values in the next column.
Below is just a sample of what unpivot does. Just ignore the data as it doesn't make sense to unpivot it
Okay I've figured that part out now, an question I have now is that my plan was to publish this dashboard (once finished) and then use power automate so any new data put into the sharepoint list will automatically update into power BI, will this work with these columns unpivoted?
Hi Tom898
You can use Power Automate to trigger a Power BI dataset refresh which means that the semantic model in the service gets refreshed with the updated data but as per documentation, the dataset refresh limit is 16 per day inclusive of API and scheduled refresh. If you wish to create a streaming/realtime dataset, you can't use Power Query so no unpivot. Here's how to create a streaming dataset with Power Automate + Power BI + SP List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmJJHFGwWFc&ab_channel=KeaPointTechTips
But honestly, I find, the auto-update as the sharepoint list is updated an overkill. I'd be fine with getting the most updated report as of yesterday or as of the last few hours but not every second.
I mean the sharepoint won't be getting that many updates, just when someone carrys out an audit. So am i unable to present the date in thr format I want while having it automatically update?
If you are within the API limit, you still can automatically trigger a semantic model refresh. It's just that if you want more than that, you have to pay more.