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Anonymous
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Show Actual Value, not Count

I am attempting to make a simple scatterplot. I have a column called Months with twelve entries, one for each month. I have a second column for my values associated with each month, which also has twelve entries. When I go to add the values to the plot, Power BI automatically does a count of the values instead of plotting the actual value for each month. I cannot figure out how to prevent this from happening. My data type for the values is whole number, so it is not because the values are strings.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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az38
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Hi @Anonymous 

set don't summarize (click on arrow near value field name)

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Anonymous
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Same issue but with a line graph. I cannot for the life figure this out. My data type is decimal number and there's no option on the click down menu for don't summarize and on the table page the summarization is set to don't summarize. And show value as it is checked no calculation instead of percent of grand total.

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v-juanli-msft
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Hi @Anonymous 

Is this problem sloved? 
If it is sloved, could you kindly accept it as a solution to close this case?
If not, please feel free to let me know.
 
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Maggie
az38
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Hi @Anonymous 

set don't summarize (click on arrow near value field name)

Безымянный.png

 

do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution

 

 


do not hesitate to give a kudo to useful posts and mark solutions as solution
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Iam trying to create a matrix table with multiple columns to display a dashboard. But, when I bring in the decimal value columns from query editor to visualization it does not show actual value. Unless, I set the columns to text field it does not show me the desired values.
Text format is not acceptable for my case as I need to do mathematical functions on these columns to derive operational cost and total cost.

Please suggest.

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