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Help building a report
- 3 years ago
You are going to want to spend some time learning Power Query. It will greatly help transforming your data.
If you have data that looks similar to the following loaded into Power BI you can use the Transform Data feature to access Power Query
It should look something like this in Power Query
I would first deselect the subtotals and total row from the account no column
Which should get you just the "data" rows
I would get rid of the total column ( you can create a DAX measure in Power BI later)
Now you have
Now you can use "Unpivot Other Columns" from the Transform tab, selecting the first two rows of the table
Now you have
Rename the "Attribute" column and change it to date type. change the value column to decimal number type
You can now Close & Apply this table to load it into Power BI
You can now create visuals like
This is just a very quick runthrough of what you could use Powe Query for. Power Query itself is extremely powerful. There are a lot of great resources online to help you out.
Hope this helps.
You are going to want to spend some time learning Power Query. It will greatly help transforming your data.
If you have data that looks similar to the following loaded into Power BI you can use the Transform Data feature to access Power Query
It should look something like this in Power Query
I would first deselect the subtotals and total row from the account no column
Which should get you just the "data" rows
I would get rid of the total column ( you can create a DAX measure in Power BI later)
Now you have
Now you can use "Unpivot Other Columns" from the Transform tab, selecting the first two rows of the table
Now you have
Rename the "Attribute" column and change it to date type. change the value column to decimal number type
You can now Close & Apply this table to load it into Power BI
You can now create visuals like
This is just a very quick runthrough of what you could use Powe Query for. Power Query itself is extremely powerful. There are a lot of great resources online to help you out.
Hope this helps.
- DK15143 years agoNew Member
Thank you! I will try this out. I appreciate your response!