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Anonymous
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Help with % Mix which then becomes recursive

Hi there, happy holidays everyone.  

Here is the challenge I am facing.  I have a product mix that i am using for a certain month, for example january, then i want to apply a new number for January but apply the product mix percentages that were previously calculated.  I am using measures to calculate the % of total (as in the sample below) but when I apply it to the new value that i would like to spread powerbi calls out a recursive error because i want to replace the original January values with the new values.

 

Is there a way around this?  i tried to create a disconnected table with the percentages housed in them but that didn't work.  I am sure there must be an easy way to solve this.  Thanks for your help!

 

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Hi @Anonymous ,


Have your issue be resolved?Could you please provide more details about it If it still not be soleved? Please don't have any Confidential Information or Real data in your reply.


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Anonymous
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hi there, unfortunately this isn't solved.  The issue is that i need to have multiple items calculate off of the mix % then sum them all up again to calculate a new figure.

mwegener
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

look at this.

 

PBIX

 

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Anonymous
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Thanks for this, unfortunately it doesn't solve my issue.  I realize I didn't explain the issue properly.  Instead of a new total January value, i would like a new product spread in the original January column using a fixed value for product D. 


I have built the %s as measures already, but i almost want to do a "paste value" like we could in excel so that those percentages are locked and not recursive.  Hope my explanation makes sense.

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mwegener
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

did you solve your problem?

 

Regards,

Marcus

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mwegener
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

look at this.

 

PBIX

 

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