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damian_bell
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
Slicer as Calculator
A somewhat self-referencing question here! There is a PowerBI cost calculator here. It is a webpage rather than a PowerBi report but I would like to perform the same functions within PBI. ...
- Anonymous5 years ago
Hi damian_bell
You could try to build a slicer table as below.
Percentage Slicer = GENERATESERIES(0, 1, 0.0001)Build a slicer by between and slicer is as below.
I build a User table.
Measure:
Percent User = VAR _Total_User = 5000 VAR _PercentUser1 = MIN ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) VAR _PercentUser2 = MAX ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) - _PercentUser1 VAR _PercentUser3 = 1 - MAX ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) RETURN SWITCH ( TRUE (), MAX ( User[User] ) = "User1", FORMAT ( _PercentUser1 * _Total_User, "0" ) & " " & FORMAT ( _PercentUser1, "(0.00%)" ), MAX ( User[User] ) = "User2", FORMAT ( _PercentUser2 * _Total_User, "0" ) & " " & FORMAT ( _PercentUser2, "(0.00%)" ), FORMAT ( _PercentUser3 * _Total_User, "0" ) & " " & FORMAT ( _PercentUser3, "(0.00%)" ) )TotalPrice = VAR _Total_User = 5000 VAR _PercentUser1 = MIN ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) VAR _PercentUser2 = MAX ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) - _PercentUser1 VAR _PercentUser3 = 1 - MAX ( 'Percentage Slicer'[Percentage Slicer] ) VAR _NumUser1 = _PercentUser1*_Total_User VAR _NumUser2 = _PercentUser2*_Total_User VAR _NumUser3 = _PercentUser3*_Total_User VAR _TotalPrice = _NumUser1*100+_NumUser2*200+_NumUser3*50 RETURN _TotalPriceResult is as below.
You can download the pbix file from this link: File
Best Regards,
Rico Zhou
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damian_bell
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
This is *exactly* what I needed! Thank you so much, it would have taken me many frustrating hours to get even close to working this out. Now I see your solution I can see that it isn't too complicated but I have learnt a lot as I have played with this today. I am very grateful for your help. Thank you.