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Show measure in rows
Dear Forum
Hi I'm new to Power BI desktop, and like the product, but have come across an issue when displaying information, Hopefully it's due to my lack of knowledge, but I can't seem to find a way to display measures or values in rows instead of columns similar to Pivot tables functionality. Values in Row labels,
For example so if I had the following table
Product Sales Profit
a 10 5
b 20 10
c 30 5
c 40 15
What I'd like to produce is something like .....
| a | b | c | Grand Total | |
| Sales | 10 | 20 | 70 | 100 |
| Profit | 5 | 10 | 20 | 35 |
Any advise on how to visualise this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Djorran,
Thank you, I followed the steps and happy to say these solution worked as long as I create the calculations I require in Power Query/Data load first. It would be nice to see the ablity to pivot including calculated measures but hopefully this will come in future releases, until then I should be able to work with this. Thank you all for your help.
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- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Making some assumptions about your data and assuming you want it pretty much exactly as you have it shown:
Given data:
Product Sales Profit
a 10 5
b 20 10
c 30 5
c 40 15
1. Create query to data "query1", edit query prior to load
2. Remove Profit column
3. Pivot column Product using Sales as value
4. Add Custom Column "Type" with value "Sales" (Sales is in double quotes)
5. Save query1
6. Create query to data "query2", edit query prior to load
7. Remove Sales column
8. Pivot column Product using Profit as value
9. Add Custom Column "Type" with value "Profit" (Profit is in double quotes)
10. Save query2
11. Edit queries
12. Pick query1
13. Append query2
14. Save query
Now you can create a visualization exactly as you have shown except that the column header for the first column will say "Type". A matrix visualization with row totals should give you your grand total.
Thank smourpre. It was an example, but your solution does help me display many of the items I want to show in this fashion
However, I was also hoping to pivot calculated measures too, I have tried using the Matrix visualisation, but I can't seem to get this to work in this way. Am I right in assuming his is currently not possible in Power BI?.
Hi,
You can use the unpivot-function in Power BI Desginer (or Power Query). In your example you can mark the product column and then choose Transform -> Unpivot columns -> Unpivot other columns. This will give you the data structured as I show below. I renamed the column with Sales and Profit in it to Measures. With this structure you can use the column Measures as rows or as columns.
Hi Djorran,
Thank you, I followed the steps and happy to say these solution worked as long as I create the calculations I require in Power Query/Data load first. It would be nice to see the ablity to pivot including calculated measures but hopefully this will come in future releases, until then I should be able to work with this. Thank you all for your help.
