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sivasrao
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Helper III

Merge Cells

Hi Everyone,

How can I get the same as the below image by using Power BI?

IMG-20221114-WA0003.jpg

How can merge the cells like in as above image?

Thank you.

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PaulDBrown
Community Champion
Community Champion

Assuming you have a fact table like the following:

ftable.jpgCreate dimension tables for mood and state including a sorting order column using:

Mood table = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(
    DISTINCT('Table'[Mood]), "dMood", 'Table'[Mood],
    "Order", 
    SWITCH(TRUE(),
    CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[Mood], "Very"), 1,
    CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[Mood], "Neut"), 2,
    3))

Mood toable.jpg

State table = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(
    DISTINCT(
        'Table'[State]),
        "dState", 'Table'[State],
        "Order",
        SWITCH(TRUE(),
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "I ag"), 1,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly ag"), 2,
        CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT('Table'[State], "Satisfied"), 3,
        CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT('Table'[State], "Strongly satisfied"), 4,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "More"), 5,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "I dis"), 6,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly dis"), 7,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly uns"), 8,
        10))

State table.jpgSort the mood and state fields by the orders columns using this method:

sort.gif

Create one-to-many relationships between the dimension tables and the corresponding fields in the fact table. The model looks like this:

model.jpgCreate a matrix using the fields from the dimension table and the item field in the rows bucket. Expand all levels and under Row headers in the formatting pane turn off the +/- icons and turn off stepped layout under options

matrix.gif

 Sample PBIX file attached





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PaulDBrown
Community Champion
Community Champion

Assuming you have a fact table like the following:

ftable.jpgCreate dimension tables for mood and state including a sorting order column using:

Mood table = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(
    DISTINCT('Table'[Mood]), "dMood", 'Table'[Mood],
    "Order", 
    SWITCH(TRUE(),
    CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[Mood], "Very"), 1,
    CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[Mood], "Neut"), 2,
    3))

Mood toable.jpg

State table = 
SELECTCOLUMNS(
    DISTINCT(
        'Table'[State]),
        "dState", 'Table'[State],
        "Order",
        SWITCH(TRUE(),
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "I ag"), 1,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly ag"), 2,
        CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT('Table'[State], "Satisfied"), 3,
        CONTAINSSTRINGEXACT('Table'[State], "Strongly satisfied"), 4,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "More"), 5,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "I dis"), 6,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly dis"), 7,
        CONTAINSSTRING('Table'[State], "Strongly uns"), 8,
        10))

State table.jpgSort the mood and state fields by the orders columns using this method:

sort.gif

Create one-to-many relationships between the dimension tables and the corresponding fields in the fact table. The model looks like this:

model.jpgCreate a matrix using the fields from the dimension table and the item field in the rows bucket. Expand all levels and under Row headers in the formatting pane turn off the +/- icons and turn off stepped layout under options

matrix.gif

 Sample PBIX file attached





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In doing so, you are also helping me. Thank you!

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Paul on Linkedin.






Hi @PaulDBrown 

Is any chance to insert some emojis based on dmood column data?

Ex: Very Happy: 😀

     Not Happy: 😔

     Neutral: 🙂

 

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you for the solution.😄👌

 

vanessafvg
Super User
Super User

just use a matrix visual and stack your columns

very happy will be your first column

agree disagree etc will be your second column

 

stack them on top of each other in the rows section

 

its helpful if you show a sample of your data.

 





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