Negative value not appearing in stacked bar chart, want to show negative as positive at the top

[bml123]

Hi,

I have a stacked column chart with totals and the variance.  If there is a negative value, it's not showing up in the stacked column chart as below.   I want to show the negative amount as positive at the top.  How do I achieve that?

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @bml123,

Did you mean to summary your records based on value symbol(positive/negative) and display them with positive value?

If that is the case, you can create a table with positive, and negative strings and use new table field on chart legends.

After these steps, you can write a measure fromula with a variable to aggregate value and return different results based on current category values.

formula =
VAR currType =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( NewTable[Type] ) //positive, negative 
RETURN
    SWITCH (
        currType,
        "positive",
            CALCULATE (
                SUM ( Table[Sales] ),
                FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( Table ), [Sales] > 0 ),
                VALUES ( Table[Category] )
            ),
        "negative",
            CALCULATE (
                ABS ( SUM ( Table[Sales] ) ),
                FILTER ( ALLSELECTED ( Table ), [Sales] < 0 ),
                VALUES ( Table[Category] )
            )
    )

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[amitchandak]

@bml123 ,

You need to create an absolute measure

M1  = abs([measure])

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