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Hi, I have a sales table with data of the lowest granularity (salesperson, client, product, date, amount, quantity, etc.)
With several on-page filters, I have a simple output table:
Column 1 - Salesperson
Column 2 - # of products sold
I'm looking to create several bins based on products sold to plot a histogram, for instance
1) 1 - 6 products sold
2) 7 - 13 products sold, etc.
so that I can say, 20 sales reps sold 1-6 products, 30 sales reps sold 7-13, etc.
Is this possible to build such a graph without derived tables, simply using measures for instance?
Thank you!
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You may refer to the following post.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Create-a-bar-graph-with-measures-as-axis/td-p/455900
@milpro011 are you able to provide some data? ie. copy and paste same into the window?
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@vanessafvg thanks!
A simplified dataset is along the following lines (sorry, I can't paste the actual data for privacy reasons).
Year | Salesperson | Product | Lot# | Qty
2019 Joe Cups A1 3
2019 Joe Cups A2 4
2019 Matt Cups A1 4
2019 Matt Cups A5 4
With filters :
Year: 2019
Product: Cups
And using a regular PowerBi table, data is reduced to:
Salesperson | Qty
Joe 7
Matt 8
James 3
Greg 2
Mitch 9
etc.
I'm looking to bucket and count how many sales reps have sold a certain amount of product
If we have 2 buckets: 1-6 and 7-13, we would have the answer
Bucket | # of Salespeople
1-6 2
7-13 3
Thanks!
You may refer to the following post.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Create-a-bar-graph-with-measures-as-axis/td-p/455900
@v-chuncz-msft Thanks! I was able to create a Measure that works i.e. returns my buckets
SalesBucketM = IF( Calculate(count(Sales[Products]),values(Sales[Salesperson]))<7, "<7", IF( Calculate(count(Sales[Products]),values(Sales[Salesperson]))>=7 && Calculate(count(Sales[Products]), values(Sales[Salesperson]))<14, "7-13", "14+"))
When I add that measure to a PowerBI table that has the Salesperson as one of the columns, it correctly computes and works. However, I can't add measures to a Matrix or set it as an Axis on a graph. Furthermore, It won't work unless I have the Salesperson as one of the columns, hence I can't do "Count(Distinct)" on the Salesperson to figure out the frequency i.e. the number of salespeople that fall under each bucket.
I tried creating a column with the exact same code, however, it always returns <7 it probably just sees that 1 line has always 1 product, and doesn't sum up the entire table.
It feels like I'm almost there, but I'm afraid that I might be hitting a dead-end too. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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