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Wrong Total sum
- 1 year ago
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Hi Sarutra ,
The "wrong total" issue in Power BI measures is really common and usually happens because DAX calculates the total differently than the individual rows. Here’s how I’d tackle it:
Use SUMX over VALUES: This ensures your custom calculation runs at the row level for each unique Invoice (or whatever your key field is), and then adds everything up for the total. For example:
Unpaid Amount =
SUMX(
VALUES('sales payments'[Invoice NR]),
[Open Order Total] - [Payments]
)
Add HASONEVALUE logic if needed: If your calculation needs to handle both single rows and totals differently, you can use HASONEVALUE to switch logic, like this:
Unpaid Amount =
IF(
HASONEVALUE('sales payments'[Invoice NR]),
[Open Order Total] - [Payments],
SUMX(
VALUES('sales payments'[Invoice NR]),
[Open Order Total] - [Payments]
)
)
Make sure your tables are joined correctly, and there aren’t any inactive relationships that could mess up the totals. Sometimes creating a quick table with SUMMARIZE or looking at a table visual can help spot why the totals are off. If it’s still not working, feel free to share a sample PBIX file with dummy data. Sometimes it’s something small that’s easy to spot with a real example.
It's not that simple. I am attaching the measure formula.