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I have Montly data bars on my bar graph and I would like to display bar with current year average and a custome value bar of target at the end, how can I achieve this.
Thankyou!
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Hi, @mokhan
Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario. The pbix file is attached in the end.
Table:
Table 2(a calculated table):
Table 2 =
UNION(
DISTINCT('Table'[YearMonth]),
ROW("YearMonth","2020-Avg"),
ROW("YearMonth","2021-Avg"),
ROW("YearMonth","Target")
)
You may two measures as below.
Result =
SWITCH(
MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth]),
"2020-Avg",
CALCULATE(
AVERAGE('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
YEAR([Date])=2020
)
),
"2021-Avg",
CALCULATE(
AVERAGE('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
YEAR([Date])=2021
)
),
"Target",12,
CALCULATE(
SUM('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
[YearMonth]=MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth])
)
)
)Color Control =
SWITCH(
MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth]),
"2020-Avg","yellow",
"2021-Avg","red",
"Target","green"
)
Then you may use 'YearMonth' from 'Table 2' as 'Shared axis' and apply conditional format based on 'Color Control'.
Result:
Best Regards
Allan
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi, @mokhan
Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario. The pbix file is attached in the end.
Table:
Table 2(a calculated table):
Table 2 =
UNION(
DISTINCT('Table'[YearMonth]),
ROW("YearMonth","2020-Avg"),
ROW("YearMonth","2021-Avg"),
ROW("YearMonth","Target")
)
You may two measures as below.
Result =
SWITCH(
MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth]),
"2020-Avg",
CALCULATE(
AVERAGE('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
YEAR([Date])=2020
)
),
"2021-Avg",
CALCULATE(
AVERAGE('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
YEAR([Date])=2021
)
),
"Target",12,
CALCULATE(
SUM('Table'[Value]),
FILTER(
ALL('Table'),
[YearMonth]=MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth])
)
)
)Color Control =
SWITCH(
MAX('Table 2'[YearMonth]),
"2020-Avg","yellow",
"2021-Avg","red",
"Target","green"
)
Then you may use 'YearMonth' from 'Table 2' as 'Shared axis' and apply conditional format based on 'Color Control'.
Result:
Best Regards
Allan
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
I need this
So far I got this
Need to add current year avg and target bar at the end.
@mokhan You will need to do a lot of manual work/calculations to achieve this. Would you settle for using the Line Column combo chart and putting the custom target value as a line value?
Or you could even use the Analytics features to set custom target as constant line and average for current year:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-analytics-pane
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