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Mladen
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9 years ago
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Power BI Basics - Column charts

Hallo Everybody,   I just started using Power BI to produce some basic reports for our Management, but I'm not really able to produce the desired Visualizations. It should be something very simple ...
  • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
    v-ljerr-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Mladen,

    The connection and slicers I used for Table1 are not working with NewTable. Do somebody know how to fix this?

    Not like measures, calculate tables/columns don't respond to user selections on the report. So your new created table won't be affected by the slicers on the your report.

     

    After reviewing your original dataset, I would suggest you use Unpivot option under Query Editor > Transform to unpivot your "2012 - product AAA - Sales", ... , "2016 - product BBB - Sales" columns first.

     

     

    Then, Split the "Attribute" column with "-".

     

     

    And Rename the columns like below.

     

     

    Last, you should be able to use a Matrix visual with "Product" as Rows, "Year" as Columns, and "Sales Revenue" as Values on the report. :smileyhappy:

     

     

    Regards

Greg_Deckler's avatar
Greg_Deckler
Icon for Community Champion rankCommunity Champion
9 years ago

You'll need to ensure that your tables are related to one another in your data model for the slicers from one table to affect the other. It sounds like you want a stacked column chart with Year as the horizontal axis, product as the legend and sales as the value.

  • Mladen's avatar
    Mladen
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    Yeah, that's exacly what I would like to produce. Can someone tell me what a DAX for generating such a new table should be? Should I then estabish relationships between the tables manually?

    • Mladen's avatar
      Mladen
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago
      Allright, I found a workaround to create the new table with:
       
      NewTable =
      UNION (
       ROW ( "Year"; 2012; "Sales Prduct A"; SUM(Table1[ProductAAA]; "Sales Prduct B"; SUM(table1[ProductBBB]))
       ROW ( "Year"; 2013; "Sales Prduct A"; SUM(Table1[ProductAAA]; "Sales Prduct B"; SUM(table1[ProductBBB]))
      ......
      )
       
      The connection and slicers I used for Table1 are not working with NewTable. Do somebody know how to fix this?
       
      Thanks very much for your help guys! best regards,
       
      Mladen
      • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
        v-ljerr-msft
        Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi Mladen,

        The connection and slicers I used for Table1 are not working with NewTable. Do somebody know how to fix this?

        Not like measures, calculate tables/columns don't respond to user selections on the report. So your new created table won't be affected by the slicers on the your report.

         

        After reviewing your original dataset, I would suggest you use Unpivot option under Query Editor > Transform to unpivot your "2012 - product AAA - Sales", ... , "2016 - product BBB - Sales" columns first.

         

         

        Then, Split the "Attribute" column with "-".

         

         

        And Rename the columns like below.

         

         

        Last, you should be able to use a Matrix visual with "Product" as Rows, "Year" as Columns, and "Sales Revenue" as Values on the report. :smileyhappy:

         

         

        Regards