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Showing Percentages in Stacked Column chart (instead of absolute values)

Hello All,

 

I'm trying to implement a Stacked Column chart where instead of showing absolute numbers, I wanted the break-up by percentages. 

 

Please note, I don't want a 100% Stacked column chart as I don't want all X-axis values to amount to 100% rather it should be their absolute values which determine the length of the data bars. 

 

Please refer the dummy data set and the graph I'm trying to depict. For now, I have achieved this by showing in Tooltips (using ALLEXCEPT) but the users tend to take printouts than use the dashboards ☹️ . This implies I need to present percentages in the graph and not in tooltips. 

 

CountrySalesBusiness/Customer
France2000B
France1000C
UK3000B
UK2000C
Germany4000B
Germany1000C
Spain2000B
Netherlands2000B
Netherlands500C
Italy1000B
Italy200C
Portugal1200B
Portugal300C

 

 

The visual I'm trying to generate is provided below. Perc.JPG

 

 

 
 

Note: I have posted this in DAX group a month back, and I haven't got a clear answer. I'm keen to know, if this can be done in Power BI.

 

Thanks, 

Varun

 
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@Anonymous I don;t think it is not possible, basically you want Y - Axis values to be absolute number but show % as data label, and currently it is not possible to show custom data labels. Having said that, add this as an ideas forum or vote for an existing idea if exists.



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@Anonymous is this what you want? What you mean by %

 

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@parry2k 

 

Many thanks for your response. 

 

I'm more looking something like this: 

 

Perc1.JPG

 

The bar length would be based on the absolute country sales, whereas the percentages would amount to 100% for each country. 

 

Thanks, 

Varun

@Anonymous I don;t think it is not possible, basically you want Y - Axis values to be absolute number but show % as data label, and currently it is not possible to show custom data labels. Having said that, add this as an ideas forum or vote for an existing idea if exists.



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Anonymous
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@parry2k 

 

Many thanks. Will check and update this in the Idea forum.

Thanks for the help.

 

Regards,

Varun

@parry2k Any updates on that? We are still stuck trying to make this work and clearly cannot be done. Another feature needs to be added... this can easily be done on Excel but not powerbi

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