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raymond
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Your Best Practice for calculating goals and goal achievment

Hello Community,

 

I would like to know how you guys approach the topic of goal achievement calculation.

 

Suppose I receive a report with Impressions on a daily basis and the company has an Impression Goal. They will reach at least 150.000 Impressions a month. The management would then only like to know to which degree this goal is fullfillt or not (goal achievement). 

 

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Currenty I create the goal value (here 150.000) and the goal achievement (simple ratio of the daily sum and the goal) with a measure. But since I am creating lots of management dashboards with many KPI and such numbers, it results in many measures as well - hence I was wondering if there might be a nicer way a best practice to it. 

 

I am looking forward to you share your ideas with me.

Thank you

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@raymond,


Measure is more appropriate in your scenario as calculated columns will not react to slicer selections. See this KB.

Regards,
Lydia

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v-yuezhe-msft
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@raymond,

How about you create the following columns instead.

Month = MONTH(Table1[Date])
Impressions Goal per Month = 150000
Goal Achievement = CALCULATE(SUM(Table1[Impressions on a daily basis]),ALLEXCEPT(Table1,Table1[Month]))/ CALCULATE(max(Table1[Impressions Goal per Month]),ALLEXCEPT(Table1,Table1[Month]))

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Lydia

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Thank you, looks neat. Would you say that one method has some advantages? Also in regards to performance maybe.

@raymond,


Please take a look at the following blog and similar thread.

http://radacad.com/measure-vs-calculated-column-the-mysterious-question-not
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/column-vs-measure/td-p/13201

Regards,
Lydia

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Thanks Lydia,

 

regarding your example. How would you change the scenario if I want to take month and year into account? Would you instead of month create a yearMonth number and put it into the equation.

@raymond,

Yes. You can create a column using DAX below, then replace Month field in the goal achievement column with YearMonth column.

YearMonth=FORMAT(Table[date],"YYYY-MMM")



Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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@v-yuezhe-msft: as I am reading through the articles I wonder whether a calculated column for monthly goal is the right tool to choose. Is there really a row by row relation in such data? Which method would you prefer between the two?

@raymond,

It depends on your requirement. Do you want to add the newly created measures in slicer? Or do you want to make the new measures respond to slicer? How many rows in your table? 

Regards,
Lydia

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The first priority is to have it react to slicers. It is not a business case where I need to put it in a slicer yet. The tables are usually large. Am I assuming right, if a measure would be more appropriate?

@raymond,


Measure is more appropriate in your scenario as calculated columns will not react to slicer selections. See this KB.

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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