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Hello,
I am currently building two bar charts and I need some help with X-Axis formatting.
The problem:
In Chart 1) I am looking at a sub-group's performance, their "time buckets" only go up to 60 minutes.
In Chart 2) I am looking at the parent group performance, their "time buckets" go up to 240 minutes.
The desired solution:
I want the X axis for both charts to be the same, to go up to 240 minutes. This means that Chart 1) will show the time bucket on the x axis, even if the value is 0.
Example Data:
| Visit | Group | Sub-Group | Time Bucket |
| 1 | A | Ab | 10 |
| 2 | A | Ab | 10 |
| 3 | A | Ab | 20 |
| 4 | A | Ab | 30 |
| 5 | A | Ab | 60 |
| 6 | A | Ac | 10 |
| 7 | A | Ac | 15 |
| 8 | A | Ac | 20 |
| 9 | A | Ac | 20 |
| 10 | A | Ac | 20 |
| 11 | A | Ac | 60 |
| 12 | A | Ac | 60 |
| 13 | A | Ac | 240 |
| 14 | A | Ac | 240 |
Desired Result:
Notice how the X-Axis in Chart 1 - which charts sub-group Ab - still show buckets 15 and 240, even if the value is 0
Thank you!
Proud to be a Super User! | |
Hi @ExcelMonke ,
Please follow these steps:
According to your description, I created the following metric for the subgroup "Ab", and by the last judgment, the count result of 0 can also be displayed in the chart.
Measure =
VAR _count = CALCULATE(COUNT('Table'[Time Bucket]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),'Table'[Sub-Group] = "Ab" && 'Table'[Time Bucket] = MAX('Table'[Time Bucket])))
RETURN
IF(_count = 0,0,_count)
The final result is shown below.
If your Current Period does not refer to this, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Clara Gong
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Thanks for the reply! So i tried to simplify the dataset in the problem. In actuality, the "Group" column comes from a different table (LocationDimension), and is linked to the visit table through the SubGroup name. How would I update the measure accordingly? Also it seems like I can't put the measure in the Axis.
Proud to be a Super User! | |
im not sure.
maybe you enable the show items with no data.
if not, maybe sharing the file if possible so i can take a closer look .
best regards,
Thanks, that is how I got it to work on Excel, but I have not been able to find a similar button/option on Power BI. Any help finding it is also appreciated 🙂
Proud to be a Super User! | |
you just need to right click on the column name. ( or click on the arrow down )
hope this helps .
Hmmm, unfortunately that was not *quite* what I needed. It does show additional categories, however not at the level of the main group. For example, bucket 240 is still missing.
Proud to be a Super User! | |
if your calculations are returning 0 , then power bi will show the bucket.
in order to know show the buckets where that are equal to zero ,
you need in your dax change zero to blank () .
exa :
measure=
switch( true () , sum(tbl_name[col_name])= 0 , blank() , sum(tbl_name[col_name])
let me know if this helps .
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