Showing a Measure as a Total Column only on Matrix

[Imrans123]

Hello, 

I wanted to know if anyone could help me with the following trouble I am having. I have a matrix visual and I want to show a column with a measure as a total only without respective values.

Here's an example data set

I created a matrix visual as follows, 

From here I want to show, for a given Item Code, across companies, the highest value and the lowest value and what is the percentage difference. 

I made the following measure and added to the matrix 

Difference = (MAX(Sheet1[Price ])-MIN(Sheet1[Price ]))/MIN(Sheet1[Price ])

Here, on the total column, it's giving me the figures I want i.e. for C1 Max is 16.3, min is 15.2 and difference is 7%. However, it's adding additional columns for each company. Any way I could get rid of this and show only the total column??

[Ali-Analyst]

Hello Team,

I'm facing the same issue and wondering if there is a way to not show these extra columns added to matrix as show in below in the yellow and only show the column added after the Total column in Green?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Ali

[gck02]

It baffles me that in 2025 there is still no clean option to do this requirement.
I am aware of the ISINSCOPE/ISFILTERED/HASONEVALUE options with the deactivation of word wrap, etc. But this solution is absolutely not future proof as if new values appear in the column headers, you have to manually hide these new column headers (even if the value of the measure is blank).
Sometimes Power BI really grinds my gear...

[Ali-Analyst]

Hello Team,
I'm facing the same issue and wondering if there is a way to not show these extra columns added to matrix as show in below in the yellow and only show the column added after the Total column in Green?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Ali

[v-yanjiang-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Imrans123 ,

According to your formula, in a measure, MAX and MIN will return the current value according to context, not the max or min value of the column, for example the Difference marked by the red line calculate by your formula is (12.2-12.2)/12.2=0.

You can get a better understanding of context through this article:Context in DAX Formulas

Here's my solution.

Difference =
VAR _MAX =
    MAXX (
        FILTER ( ALL ( Sheet1 ), 'Sheet1'[Item Code] = MAX ( 'Sheet1'[Item Code] ) ),
        'Sheet1'[Price]
    )
VAR _MIN =
    MINX (
        FILTER ( ALL ( Sheet1 ), 'Sheet1'[Item Code] = MAX ( 'Sheet1'[Item Code] ) ),
        'Sheet1'[Price]
    )
RETURN
    DIVIDE ( _MAX - _MIN, _MIN )

Get the result.

Reference for MAXX and MINX function: MAXX function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs

MINX function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Docs

I attach my sample below for reference.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ kalyj

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[AlexisOlson]

It's not too hard to write a measure that returns blank for each company column using ISINSCOPE, but that won't make them disappear (they'll just be blank instead of 0.00).

A quick and dirty solution is to turn off word wrap and resize the columns to be effectively invisible.