Tallying totals for items in columns based on a value in column A (scorecard)

[johnelliott]

Greetings PBI community. 

I am very much still learning and am a bit stuck on how to accomplish this.

I have values in column A of a spreadsheet, 1-15.  In columns B-K there are categories. In each category a name will appear for each of the 1-15 values.  My goal is to total the 'score' for each name based on the corresponding value in column A.

For instance in this example using only 1-3 rather than 1-15, Tom would have 16, Sue would have 21 and Anne would have 23

1	Tom	Sue	Sue	Tom	Tom	Sue	Sue	Tom	Sue	Anne
2	Sue	Tom	Tom	Anne	Anne	Tom	Tom	Sue	Tom	Tom
3	Anne	Anne	Anne	Sue	Sue	Anne	Anne	Anne	Sue	Sue

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[TomMartens · Accepted solution]

Hey @johnelliott ,

when using Power Query you can select column a and use the transformation "Unpivot other columns", the following screenshot shows the result of this operation:

The idea of the unpivot operation is to transform the existing wide format into a long format (this is optimal for the Tabular data model).

Then in Power BI you can create this simple table visual

I'm not sure about the expected result, as I understand the business rule you provided like this:

Sue = 5 * 1 + 2 * 2 + 4 * 3 = 21.

Hopefully, this provides what you are looking for.

Regards,

Tom