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Pammy2411
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9 years ago
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Measure using different data within one column

Hi,   I currently have my data structured in the following manner:     I am having trouble calculating within one column. For example, in my column KPI i have: Product 1 Revenue Product ...
  • PowerDAX's avatar
    9 years ago

    Hi Pamela - you have a couple of options here.

     

    1. When importing the data to Power BI, you could 'pivot' the data to make each KPI a column.  This is not best practice if there are multiple KPI(s) to calculate.  This is due to an increase in the number of columns and an increase in cardinality in values - thus higher memory consumption and slower calculations.  If you didn't have very many KPI(s) and not a bunch of rows, you would pivot the data and sum the columns as your calculation - i.e. Revenue - Product 1 = SUM( [Product 1 Revenue]), Revenue - Product 2 = SUM( [Product 2 Revenue]) with and end result measure of Revenue Mix = DIVIDE( [Revenue - Product 1], [Revenue - Product 1] + [Revenue - Product 2], 0)

    2. When your values are in rows vs columns, you have to use a CALCULATE function.  For this calculation in particular, you could

        a) create measures for each KPI - i.e. Revenue - Product 1 = CALCULATE( SUM( [Value]), [KPI] = "Product 1 Revenue"), Revenue - Product 2 = CALCULATE( SUM( [Value]), [KPI] = "Product 2 Revenue") - if those are required to be viewed individually - and an end result measure - i.e. Revenue Mix = DIVIDE( [Revenue - Product 1], [Revenue - Product 1] + [Revenue - Product 2], 0)

        b) create your end result measure w/o intermediate measures - i.e. Revenue Mix = DIVIDE( CALCULATE( SUM( [Value]), [KPI] = "Product 1 Revenue"), CALCULATE( SUM( [Value]), [KPI] = "Product 1 Revenue" || [KPI] = "Product 2 Revenue"), 0)