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demonfc
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Measure help

I have a problem I am struggling to solve. I have a table with items sold in 4 different columns and the total sales of the item sold in that column in 4 different columns. (See Below). 

 

I need to calculate the total sales of Each item (Bikes, Trains, etc.) regardless of the column its in.

 

For example,"Bikes" is reference in Item column 1, 2, & in column 3 twice, thus would need to sum the values in Value column 1 (Row 2, "556"), Value column 2(row 3, "3815"), and Value Column 3(row 4 "2546" & row 6 "644") to See "Bikes" = 7561. 

 

This would need to be done for Each of the items sold. 

 

Item 1Item 2Item 3Item 4Value 1Value 2Value 3Value 4
BikesTrains  5561600  
TrainsBikesWheels 198638152065 
WheelsSpokesBikesTrains264846254616000
SpokesWheels  11298  
DiamondsRivetsBikes 256645644 
RivetsBikesTraomsWheels64482344522051785

 

Thank you for any help you can provide. 

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

@demonfc

 

I think you will be better off transforming our table into 2 columns (items and Values) using Power Query

File attached as well

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("ZY7BDsIgEER/peHcA9BdpFfjF6iJB8KhiSQSbWnU+P2yKKtND+xsyLyZdU5s4zU8RCuO9yFOtDTfh2jyVEZK/vSt+/kqeLqEcKug6i1RnVWYRUuDDLLvMKcPuarWBmwWoAiNUPtl4RnjoNqpyN7bxZm7OIxpOpNtH1/h+d/XlHhKN4BlAnMrcz4ujYvabKcu3UGhtZYkamNReP8G", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Item 1" = _t, #"Item 2" = _t, #"Item 3" = _t, #"Item 4" = _t, #"Value 1" = _t, #"Value 2" = _t, #"Value 3" = _t, #"Value 4" = _t]),
    step = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Item 1", type text}, {"Item 2", type text}, {"Item 3", type text}, {"Item 4", type text}, {"Value 1", Int64.Type}, {"Value 2", Int64.Type}, {"Value 3", Int64.Type}, {"Value 4", Int64.Type}}),
    G1 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 1],step[Value 1]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G2 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 2],step[Value 2]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G3 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 3],step[Value 3]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G4 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 4],step[Value 4]},{"Items","Value"}),
    Final=Table.Combine({G1,G2,G3,G4}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Final, each ([Items] <> " ") and ([Value] <> null))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

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Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
Community Champion

@demonfc

 

I think you will be better off transforming our table into 2 columns (items and Values) using Power Query

File attached as well

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("ZY7BDsIgEER/peHcA9BdpFfjF6iJB8KhiSQSbWnU+P2yKKtND+xsyLyZdU5s4zU8RCuO9yFOtDTfh2jyVEZK/vSt+/kqeLqEcKug6i1RnVWYRUuDDLLvMKcPuarWBmwWoAiNUPtl4RnjoNqpyN7bxZm7OIxpOpNtH1/h+d/XlHhKN4BlAnMrcz4ujYvabKcu3UGhtZYkamNReP8G", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Item 1" = _t, #"Item 2" = _t, #"Item 3" = _t, #"Item 4" = _t, #"Value 1" = _t, #"Value 2" = _t, #"Value 3" = _t, #"Value 4" = _t]),
    step = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Item 1", type text}, {"Item 2", type text}, {"Item 3", type text}, {"Item 4", type text}, {"Value 1", Int64.Type}, {"Value 2", Int64.Type}, {"Value 3", Int64.Type}, {"Value 4", Int64.Type}}),
    G1 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 1],step[Value 1]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G2 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 2],step[Value 2]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G3 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 3],step[Value 3]},{"Items","Value"}),
    G4 = Table.FromColumns({step[Item 4],step[Value 4]},{"Items","Value"}),
    Final=Table.Combine({G1,G2,G3,G4}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Final, each ([Items] <> " ") and ([Value] <> null))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

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