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Hi!
I´m have a database for a survey where i have one question per colmn. It looks like this:
Customers,Question1,Quesiton2,Question3,Question4,Question5
Customer1,3,3,3,3,3
Customer2,4,4,3,4,3
Customer3,5,3,4,2,4
The answers are numbers from 1 to 5 and i want to make a bar/column chart where each column of the char represents the average answer for each question.
In power bi, without editing the imported data, i have one field for each column:
Is there a way to add each question as a column in the bar chart? The solution i found is unpivoting the question columns but it´s a problem because i need to use the individual questions for other visuals and analysis.
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@AgustinBrocardo , Create a new table that has values from Question1 to Question5 in rows in question columns
then try a measure
Switch(max(Question[Question]) ,
"Question 1", Sum(Table[Question 1]) ,
"Question 2", Sum(Table[Question 2]) ,
"Question 3", Sum(Table[Question 3]) ,
"Question 4", Sum(Table[Question 4]) ,
"Question 5", Sum(Table[Question 5])
)
Then use question from the question table in visual and try
@AgustinBrocardo , Create a new table that has values from Question1 to Question5 in rows in question columns
then try a measure
Switch(max(Question[Question]) ,
"Question 1", Sum(Table[Question 1]) ,
"Question 2", Sum(Table[Question 2]) ,
"Question 3", Sum(Table[Question 3]) ,
"Question 4", Sum(Table[Question 4]) ,
"Question 5", Sum(Table[Question 5])
)
Then use question from the question table in visual and try
Hi @amitchandak I couldn´t make it work. There´s also a fact i didn´t mention and it may be important, the database will be updated every two months, it won´t be a one time report
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