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Anonymous
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Problem with rendering Columns of a Matrix table from another Table

Hi All,

I am creating a Pivot like table on the Sales data which looks as follows. I want to Pivot by Category along rows and Month along colunms.

 

Source data

SalesData.PNG

 

Expected pivot (fromExcel)

PivotExample.PNG

 

My approach - Create another table with the list of Months

Months.PNG

 

Outocome in Power BI

PowerBI_Matrix.PNG

 

I have used the "Show items with no data" . 

 

Challenge

Power BI has displayed columns from Jan to Dec. I want Power BI to restrict to values in the list of months

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Sau

 

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v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I recreated data to reproduce your scenario.

Table:

g1.png

 

Calendar(a calculated table):

 

 

Calendar = CALENDARAUTO()

 

 

 

There is a many-to-one relationship between two tables.

 

Then you may use the date column from Calendar table to create a matrix visual. Do make sure you check the 'show items with no data' and use visual level filter to display the result. Here is the result.

g3.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

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v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I recreated data to reproduce your scenario.

Table:

g1.png

 

Calendar(a calculated table):

 

 

Calendar = CALENDARAUTO()

 

 

 

There is a many-to-one relationship between two tables.

 

Then you may use the date column from Calendar table to create a matrix visual. Do make sure you check the 'show items with no data' and use visual level filter to display the result. Here is the result.

g3.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario.

b1.png

 

You may create a matrix visual as follows.

b2.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Greg_Deckler
Super User
Super User

Use the Filter pane?

 

 



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Try and do this option month , and see if it can help

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