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Hello,
I am trying to display a data table as a table visual in Power BI, but unless there is a unique identifies (index) or unique date, Power BI automatically summarizes the table.
As as example if I have the following table (this is just a sample table and a simplified version of the data I have):
Data Table:
| Product | Type | Quantity | Purchase Date | Purchase Month |
| Fruit | Apple | 100 | 2020-11-05 | Nov |
| Fruit | Apple | 100 | 2020-11-15 | Nov |
| Fruit | Pear | 20 | 2020-12-01 | Dec |
| Vegetable | Carrot | 1 | 2020-12-05 | Dec |
| Vegetable | Tomato | 15 | 2020-10-01 | Oct |
| Vegetable | Tomato | 12 | 2020-10-02 | Oct |
| Vegetable | Tomato | 13 | 2020-10-03 | Oct |
| Fruit | Banana | 50 | 2020-09-05 | Sep |
| Fruit | Banana | 50 | 2020-09-15 | Sep |
| Fruit | Banana | 50 | 2020-10-01 | Oct |
I am trying to show the Product, Type, Quantity and Purchase Month as a table visual to allow a user to drilldown and extract the details, but Power BI automatically summarizes the data. Is there a way I can display the table visual without the summarization or aggregation?
Table Visual:
| Purchase Month | Product | Type | Quantity |
| Dec | Fruit | Pear | 20 |
| Dec | Vegetable | Carrot | 1 |
| Nov | Fruit | Apple | 100 |
| Oct | Fruit | Banana | 50 |
| Oct | Vegetable | Tomato | 12 |
| Oct | Vegetable | Tomato | 13 |
| Oct | Vegetable | Tomato | 15 |
| Sep | Fruit | Banana | 50 |
Thank you!
Solved! Go to Solution.
If there are no separate distinct values such as Id, duplicate values will be filtered out in the table visual, so you must put a column of distinct values in the table, for example, you can create a sort column based on date, so that all values can be listed
Column = RANKX('Table',[Purchase Date],,ASC,Dense)
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
If there are no separate distinct values such as Id, duplicate values will be filtered out in the table visual, so you must put a column of distinct values in the table, for example, you can create a sort column based on date, so that all values can be listed
Column = RANKX('Table',[Purchase Date],,ASC,Dense)
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Assuming this is the table matrix you are using, you can set it to not summarize specific fields.
Hi @vicky_,
I did - I set the Quantity field to not summarize which is why the banana and apple quantity in Sept is still 50 and so is the Apple in Nov is 100.
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