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Anonymous
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How to achieve Don't Summarize in Power BI Bar Chart?

Hi All,

 

I want to achieve Don't Summarize option in Power BI Bar Chart. Could somone help me to reolve this issue.

 

Thanks,

Lawrance A

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Anonymous
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Hey Lawrance,

 

Based on my understanding of "Dont Summarize" in Power BI I would say you want to prevent the automatic grouping of data in a bar chart. Could you confirm whether this is the case?

 

If this is the case I suggest creating a new column which concatenates the index (key) of the row of the dimension with the dimension name itself. 

 

Example:

 

Index, Name, City, Name_Index

1, Thomas, London, Thomas_1

2, Thomas, Manchester, Thomas_2

 

If this is not what you meant then I suggest reading this other post: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Option-to-choose-quot-Don-t-Summarize-quot-Missing-quot-Do-...

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Anonymous
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Hey Lawrance,

 

Based on my understanding of "Dont Summarize" in Power BI I would say you want to prevent the automatic grouping of data in a bar chart. Could you confirm whether this is the case?

 

If this is the case I suggest creating a new column which concatenates the index (key) of the row of the dimension with the dimension name itself. 

 

Example:

 

Index, Name, City, Name_Index

1, Thomas, London, Thomas_1

2, Thomas, Manchester, Thomas_2

 

If this is not what you meant then I suggest reading this other post: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Option-to-choose-quot-Don-t-Summarize-quot-Missing-quot-Do-...

MFelix
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Can you please detail a little what you want to achieve.

 

Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490 (courtesy of @Greg_Deckler).

 

Regards,

MFelix


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