Table visual display total number of rows

[Anonymous]

Hello

I have the following data in a table visualization in Power BI and i simply want to count the number of names and show the total at the bottom of the table in a row with the text:  Total = 11. Under Format, i have the Total option enabled but it does not show anything new in the visual. Any help is much appreciated!

[PaulDBrown · Accepted solution]

Here is a "hack". Create a measure along the lines of:

With Totals = 
IF(ISINSCOPE('Table'[Name]), MAX('Table'[Name]), "Total " & COUNTROWS('Table'))

Create the table visual with the name field and the measure and turn off the word wrap options in the formatting pane:

Now hide the name column by dragging the column's border left:

[Jas359]

Thank you PaulDBrown, I was looking for a similar solution and your post helped me.

[parry2k]

@Anonymous unfortunately that is not possible with the measure without using another column on the rows or values. The only way I can think of creating a new table that has all the student names and a new row with a total number of students and then you use it in your visual and that will work.

[Anonymous]

@parry2k

Could you please explain what's the difference between your code and this code which gives the same results: 

Name count = COUNTROWS('Student name list')

[parry2k]

@Anonymous you need to create a measure to make it work. I guess at this point you have put a name column on the rows and it is not getting aggregated. To make it work, add a following measure and use it on the values:

New Measure = 
IF ( HASONEFILTER ( YourTable[Student Name] ), 
     MAX ( YourTable[Student Name] ),
     Format ( COUNTROWS ( YourTable ), "General Number" )
)

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[Anonymous]

Hi @parry2k Thanks for your reply! I did as you suggested but it does not look right since i only want one column of names and the total number of names underneath. Is that possible?

If i remove "Student Name" field from the values, i get only the total and no list of names.