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Anonymous
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Divide won't show value even though it's not divide by 0

I want to have 3 matricies setup, the first 2 are working perfectly fine, just the third one down is missing some values in columns that should appear (not divide by 0)

 

 

1) Row, # of Sales People

    Columns,  3 Contractors , 4 Juniors, 2 Seniors, 1 Executive, 10 Grand Total (formula)

 

2) Total Sales $

    Columns, $150 Contractor, $400 Junior, $400 Senior, $1000 Executive, $1,950 Grand Total (formula)

 

3) $ / Sales Person

ERROR: Only $/Sales Person of the Grand Total column appears ($195.00), even though other columns should. Missing average sales of Contractor ($50), Junior ($100), Senior ($200), and Executive ($1000).

I have made the following 3 variables:

Num of Sales People = SUM(datatable[HeadCount])

Total Sales  = SUM(datatable[GrossSales])

Average Sale = DIVIDE([Total Sales].[Num of Sales People])


Even when I do DIVIDE([Total Sales].[Num of Sales People],0), it gives me $0s where you would expect to see $50, $100, $200 etc.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Edit: 
I tried adding CALCULATE( to both Num of Sales People and Total Sales thinking it would help the column filters from the Matricies. It didn't work.example.png

 

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous,

 

What visual did you use? Since you invoked two measures, they should be in the same context. It could be like below.

Column # of Sales People Sales $ Avg Sales / Person
Contractors 3 150 50
Juniors 4 400 100
Seniors 2 400 200
Executive 1 1000 1000
total 10 1950 195

 

To be honest, your scenario is simple. If you still have questions, please provide a sample.

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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 Hi Dale, 


When I designed it another view to troubleshoot it further, it was because I had 'Juniors/Contractors/etc." column sorted based on a different column "RoleSortOrder".

For some reason, Contractors whom I typically want first, was sometimes sorted as 1 and sometimes sorted as 2.

Once I cleaned up this SortOrder to be 100% consistent, PowerBI combined them apporpriately.

Thanks so much Dale!

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous,

 

What visual did you use? Since you invoked two measures, they should be in the same context. It could be like below.

Column # of Sales People Sales $ Avg Sales / Person
Contractors 3 150 50
Juniors 4 400 100
Seniors 2 400 200
Executive 1 1000 1000
total 10 1950 195

 

To be honest, your scenario is simple. If you still have questions, please provide a sample.

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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 Hi Dale, 


When I designed it another view to troubleshoot it further, it was because I had 'Juniors/Contractors/etc." column sorted based on a different column "RoleSortOrder".

For some reason, Contractors whom I typically want first, was sometimes sorted as 1 and sometimes sorted as 2.

Once I cleaned up this SortOrder to be 100% consistent, PowerBI combined them apporpriately.

Thanks so much Dale!

Anonymous
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(Other post was flagged as SPAM incorrectly, sorry to the Moderators for the repost)

 

I want to have 3 matricies setup, the first 2 are working perfectly fine, just the third one down is missing some values in columns that should appear (not divide by 0)

 

 

1) Row, # of Sales People

    Columns,  3 Contractors , 4 Juniors, 2 Seniors, 1 Executive, 10 Grand Total (formula)

 

2) Total Sales $

    Columns, $150 Contractor, $400 Junior, $400 Senior, $1000 Executive, $1,950 Grand Total (formula)

 

3) $ / Sales Person

ERROR: Only $/Sales Person of the Grand Total column appears ($195.00), even though other columns should. Missing average sales of Contractor ($50), Junior ($100), Senior ($200), and Executive ($1000).

I have made the following 3 variables:

Num of Sales People = SUM(datatable[HeadCount])

Total Sales  = SUM(datatable[GrossSales])

Average Sale = DIVIDE([Total Sales].[Num of Sales People])


Even when I do DIVIDE([Total Sales].[Num of Sales People],0), it gives me $0s where you would expect to see $50, $100, $200 etc.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Edit: 
I tried adding CALCULATE( to both Num of Sales People and Total Sales thinking it would help the column filters from the Matricies. It didn't work.

 

Here's a quick Excel mockup of what I'd hope the PowerBI to be able to show in 3 separate matricies.example.png

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