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Anonymous
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Percentage of Parent Total

Hello,

 

I am trying to calculate the percentage of parent total and make a bar chart in Power BI. I am beginner and I am not sure how to do it in Power BI.

I would appreciate If you could advise me on this.

This is how I calculate and visualise it in Excel:

Paren Total Bar chart.PNGPercentage of Parent Total.PNG

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Fowmy
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@Anonymous 

Use below measure:

% Parent = 

DIVIDE(
    SUM(Table[Cost]),
    CALCULATE(
        SUM(Table[Cost]),
        ALLSELECTED(Table[Mode])
    )
)


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Anonymous
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@Fowmy  I used the measure and it works! Thank you!

Fowmy
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Super User

@Anonymous 

Use below measure:

% Parent = 

DIVIDE(
    SUM(Table[Cost]),
    CALCULATE(
        SUM(Table[Cost]),
        ALLSELECTED(Table[Mode])
    )
)


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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , both supplier and mode on the x-axis. And sort on them +plus concatenate label off. Check screenshot

Concat 1.pngConcat2.png

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @amitchandak,

Thanks for your reply.

I've made the changes you mentioned but it only shows total percentage of cost by transport mode. I want to see the percentage of the cost for each supplier by transport mode like I did in Excel.

Bar Chart PBI.PNG

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