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Hello.
I am new user to power bi.
I tried to make a matrix with some database entries but it seems I can't get this right... I read almost everything about this on the forums and tutorials and I couldn't get anything to work.
As the picture above is showing (a "matrix" created in Excel) I need to create some rows that are stored in the database with the names showed there and on columns I have some city names that I need to be stored there.
How can I create this on a matrix visualization ? Any tips on how can I do it are deeply appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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@v-yuezhe-msft With a little bit of help of your screen shot I managed to make my Matrix visual in Power BI. All I needed to do was to un-pivot some columns in the database query and worked my way around that. I kept using the pivot and I didn't realize what was not working.
@dkay84_PowerBI Thank you for this tip. I created the columns ( Attributes & Values ) with the unpivot columns.
Thank you for the help that you provided 🙂 .
Hi @R3muS10,
How do you store data in your original table? It is easy to create a Matrix visual in Power BI Desktop if you have sample data shown in the following scrrenshot.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
@v-yuezhe-msft With a little bit of help of your screen shot I managed to make my Matrix visual in Power BI. All I needed to do was to un-pivot some columns in the database query and worked my way around that. I kept using the pivot and I didn't realize what was not working.
@dkay84_PowerBI Thank you for this tip. I created the columns ( Attributes & Values ) with the unpivot columns.
Thank you for the help that you provided 🙂 .
Using the Matrix visualization in Power BI, you would put City Names in columns, value fields (i.e. salary, salaryworked, etc.) in the values option, and possibly need to create a new column with the names of your value fields which you would add to the rows option.