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shanelthiggs
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8 years ago
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Matrix Column Headers - Measures before Dimension (SSAS)

Hi All   Firstly, apologies if this has already been answered/covered in a previous thread; I've not managed to find anything thus far and did try to (probably wrongly) tag on to a different questi...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    HI shanelthiggs,

     

    I think you need some additional steps to achieve your requirement.

     

    Steps:

    1. Enter to query editor.

    2. Choose 'Volume units' and 'Revenue Net', then use 'unpivot columns' feature to transfer them to attribute and value.
    3. Save change and return to report view.

    4. Drag attribute to column fields and value to value field.(notice: resort column filed and mark sure month column is in the bottom)

     

    BTW, if 'Volume units' and 'Revenue Net' means measures, it is impossible to achieve your requirement. Current power bi can't use measure on row or column fields.

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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shanelthiggs
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Hi Anonymous - thanks for the reply.

 

I'm not sure that's going to work for us, as we're linking directly to a SSAS Cube for the data to form the matrix. The below might explain a little more what I'm hoping to achieve; effectively, get the values as columns.

 

In the third image, on the left hand side (1) is the output we're given, and the right hand side (2) is the output we'd like to be able to achieve.


Thanks

Shane

 

CurrentDesiredDesired Output

 

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

HI shanelthiggs,

 

I think you need some additional steps to achieve your requirement.

 

Steps:

1. Enter to query editor.

2. Choose 'Volume units' and 'Revenue Net', then use 'unpivot columns' feature to transfer them to attribute and value.
3. Save change and return to report view.

4. Drag attribute to column fields and value to value field.(notice: resort column filed and mark sure month column is in the bottom)

 

BTW, if 'Volume units' and 'Revenue Net' means measures, it is impossible to achieve your requirement. Current power bi can't use measure on row or column fields.

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

  • shanelthiggs's avatar
    shanelthiggs
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago

    Thank you Anonymous - they are measures so as you said, will not be possible to achieve this in current versions.

     

    Accepted as solution.

  • cathgr's avatar
    cathgr
    New Member
    4 years ago

    Hello,

     

    I am trying to do the exact same thing. Does the feature now exist for measures ? 

     

    Referring to that : "BTW, if 'Volume units' and 'Revenue Net' means measures, it is impossible to achieve your requirement. Current power bi can't use measure on row or column fields."

     

    I am trying to do something easily done on Pivot Table in excel. When we have multiple "measures" and columns category: we just need to change the order of the "value" in the column to put it in first position. So our "values from measures" are shown as the first level of hierarchy.

    Can we do something similar in a Matrix in Power BI?

    Thank you!