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flavourabbit
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8 years ago

Waterfall Chart using multiple measures

Hello,   I know this must've been an old topic in Business Intelligence. However, I didn't find any idea to realize what I'd like to achieve.   The thing is I'd like to create a Waterfall Chart ...
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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Hi,

 

Yes, you can do it via a workaround in DAX formula and a control table.

1. Create a table with matching "measure" name:

 

 

 

 

 

2. Create an additional measure for your waterfall chart, you may apply + or - for your measure to get the waterfall sentiment:

Waterfall value = 
    SWITCH (
        SELECTEDVALUE ( Table1[Index] );
        1; +[Measure 1];
        2; +[Measure 2];
        3; -[Measure 3];
        BLANK()
    )

3. Apply the new measure in your waterfall chart, with the category based on the table field created (Note that you need to sort it via the category, use hierarchical drill-down if needed):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Great solution cyongt_bdf,

One small improvement I figued out while trying this is to make an additional column in the new table. You will use this new column field as your Category. This field be whatever you want your X-axis titles to be. For example, "1: Measure 1", "2: Measure 2". This way you do not have to drill down to get the x-axis to look the way you want, and you can still make the order of the items static.

 

I used a DAX formula like the following to make this new column:
X-Axis Titles = 'Table1'[Index]&": "&'Table 1'[Measure]