Growth Line Bar Chart (Linear)

[Anonymous]

Hey!

I am looking for a way to add a linear "target line" to my line/bar chart.

What I am looking  for is to use januari Total Sales as a base line and to add a growth line based on a % (determined by me) increase.

Lets say we had 100 sales in januari (2022) and for a target we've established we want to grow 10% every month

Expected results:

Jan: 100
Feb: 110
Mar: 121
Apr: 133

Etc.

For the bars in the chart I put the actual Sales per month, wheras the line should be above mentioned "targets". 

The report is based on a Tabular connection, which makes it slightly more difficult to add custom data / columns, so I haven't figured out an easy way to do this.

Any tips or tricks?

Would love to hear it! 🙂

Kind regards,

Daniël

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous ,

It seems that your Date column is Text type not Date type. Please check.

If the error still exists , I'd suggest you share some dummy data for us to test. Refer to:

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Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

According to your description, you want to get the target value based on the 10% growth every month.

If so, I have created a data sample:

Please use the following formula to create Target measure:

Target = 
var _minDate=MINX(ALL('Table'),[Date])
var _minValue=CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Value]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),[Date]=_minDate))
var _monthDiff=DATEDIFF(_minDate,MAX('Table'[Date]),MONTH)
return _minValue  * POWER(1.1,_monthDiff)

And then create a Line and stacked column chart:

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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[Anonymous]

Thanks for the swift reply, Eyelyn!

Sadly the above mentioned measure returns blank. Could this have to do with how my data structure is set up? (Tabular model)