Forum Discussion
Showing the same parameter multiple times in a Table visual
- 8 months ago
Hi HanaOkugic
1️⃣ Add a “Helper Column” to make duplicates unique
Power BI does not allow identical rows to appear twice if there’s no unique identifier.
Solution: create a new column in your table (Power Query or DAX) to make each row unique.
Power Query approach1. Go to Transform Data → Power Query.
2. Add an Index Column:Home → Add Column → Index Column → From 1
3. Add a Custom Column that combines your parameter with the index:
UniqueParameter = [Parameter] & " - " & Number.ToText([Index])
4. Load data back to Power BI.
5. Use UniqueParameter in the Table visual — now duplicates will appear as separate rows.
---2️⃣ Use DAX to create a “duplicated table”
If you want to repeat certain values programmatically:
DuplicatedTable =
UNION(
SELECTCOLUMNS(DATA, "Parameter", DATA[Parameter], "Value", DATA[Value]),
SELECTCOLUMNS(
FILTER(DATA, DATA[Parameter] IN {"Apple","Peach"}),
"Parameter", DATA[Parameter],
"Value", DATA[Value]
)
)This creates a table with Apple and Peach repeated.
Use DuplicatedTable in your Table visual.
If this solution helped you, please mark it as the accepted answer so it can help others as well.
Best regards
Why do you need to do this? It seems very odd to introduce duplicated data when you'd normally want to be simplifying things.
Phil
- HanaOkugic8 months agoRegular Visitor
The clients want to have a table in Power BI that is identical to the one they have in Excel. The issue is that some financial values are repeated multiple times, even though they should logically belong to different subcategories. However, in their data model there is only one parameter, and that same parameter is being used for both subcategories and this is how they originally built the table in Fabric. Because of that, I'm now running into limitations when trying to replicate the Excel structure.