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Mat87
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Getting a simple average (measure)

So I have a table that basically looks like this:

 

 

I want to create a measure that give me average sales per transaction.  Thing when I create a column dividing sales by transactions it give me average sales per employee but but the values for other categories (department, city etc) are wrong, even when I choose the summaraize by avaerage option in the pivot table. 

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Mat87

 

Have you tried creating it as a calcuated measure rather than as a calcuated column?

 

How does this look?

 

Measure = DIVIDE(
				SUM(Table1[Total Sales]) , 
				SUM(Table1[Total Transactions])
				)

To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Mat87

 

Have you tried creating it as a calcuated measure rather than as a calcuated column?

 

How does this look?

 

Measure = DIVIDE(
				SUM(Table1[Total Sales]) , 
				SUM(Table1[Total Transactions])
				)

To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

Yeah that worked great. 

 

Thanks, Phil. 

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