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I have couple of thoughts on Visual calculations:
1. How to use Visual Calculations with Field Parameters. I want to enable some calculations on visual based the selected value in field parameter. For example: I have a,b,c and d visual calculation on visual. I have setup a field parameter with slicer values a,b,c and d.
So when a user select a and c from the slicer, user should see respective columns on visual.
2. How it will work with matrix visual with nested columns. For example in below table i have Sales and Qty numbers for FY and FY-1 and i want to get (FY) + (FY-1) using visual calculations that would sum up the values of Sales and Qty for FY and FY-1. Is this currently supported?
FY | FY-1 | (FY) + (FY-1) | ||||
Country | Sales | Qty | Sales | Qty | Sales | Qty |
India | 43 | 5345 | 34 | 34 | 77 | 5379 |
China | 545 | 64 | 545 | 64 | 1090 | 128 |
USA | 34 | 43 | 34 | 34 | 68 | 77 |
France | 6 | 645 | 64 | 43 | 70 | 688 |
Germany | 46 | 454 | 34 | 54 | 80 | 508 |
hello, field parameters are not supported at this time.
you should be able to do this with expand / collapse. Documentation is still being published for those.
Hi @jeroenterheerdt ,
Currently the visual calcualtion documentation links mentioned in your visual calculation and the monthly Power BI blog posts are still unavailable.
Hello @nielsvdc ,
check this https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/visual-calculations-preview/
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I know. But for example the link mentioned in the post for the RUNNINGSUM function is not working.
the docs are still coming online, but I expect those to start working soon.
Just 2 questions:
Is it possible to calculate the YoY % or MoM % trend, while I have the year/month as a legend in the graph?
in the runningsum calculation, if I have a YoY comparison is it possible to show in full data related to last year while only YTD/MTD for current year? (to avoid to have a flat line with latest value until the end of selected period)
can you maybe share a screenshot of what you're seeing and what you want to do?
I'm missing the ability for conditional formatting. Does it work differently, or will this be added later?
will come - it's on the list of limitations.
This is a very cool feature, once conditional formatting is added (I use it on certain columns in a few matrix visuals) this will be a major performance boon for my reports that are aggregating and filtering millions of rows. The overhead of calculating a change % and doing it again for the formatting is a killer, moving that to the high-level view users see will be amazing.
Hello @jeroenterheerdt
From my quick tests the two mains limitations I experiment is that
- it's not compatible yet with Field Parameters
- I am trying to replicate ABC Calculation (pareto) but it's not possible as we need to order by quantities ascending
Otherwise this new feature seems promising. thanks for the hard work 😉
field parameters are not supported yet. can you show me exactly what you're trying to do with the pareto?
when should we expect the compatiblity with field parameters? weeks, months, years?? this is very awaited in our company
most likely months.
Thank you @mark_endicott !
@jeroenterheerdt to answer your question, this was the kind of analysis I wanted to do => End user should focus on Class A Products as it contributes to 80% of the sales
Field parameters would be useful to have something dynamic as we can switch easily from a dimension to an other.
2 suggestions to add in documentation -
1. Governance - Centralized measures in model helps in reusability across various reports so there should be a fine balance between what to use when
2. Few example use cases where Visual Calculations will be game changer - e.g. Building Income Statement, etc
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