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Anonymous
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Total

I have created a simple table visualization.  But, even though "Total" is turned on in the Formatting, a total is not appearing for all columns.

Why not, and how do I get a total?

I can't believe that this is not intuitive.

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v-yalanwu-msft
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v-yalanwu-msft
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Hi, @Anonymous ;

Because the aggregation is done for each column. Simply say you have 5 columns, select count as the aggregate type, then each column has the corresponding count sum;
If you want to get the total count of five columns, you can use measure to do it and put it in the card. For example:

1.orginal count by every column.

vyalanwumsft_0-1641435050581.png

 

2.create a measure.

Measure = DISTINCTCOUNT([Column1])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column2])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column3])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column4])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column5])

The final output is shown below:

vyalanwumsft_1-1641435163579.png

 

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VahidDM
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

It depends on the column data type and aggregation.

check the data types of your columns.

 

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Anonymous
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They're Whole Numbers.  So, they should simply add across.  They don't.

@Anonymous 

 

Did you check the column aggregation?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-aggregates

 

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Anonymous
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Each column is of a "count" aggregation. 

There are five columns. 

So, if the value of each column respectively is 3, 5, 2, 8, and 9, then I would like to see a separate total of 27.

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