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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.
Hi, @Anonymous ;
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.
2.create a measure.
Measure = DISTINCTCOUNT([Column1])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column2])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column3])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column4])+DISTINCTCOUNT([Column5])
The final output is shown below:
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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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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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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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