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vijayghatti
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how to calculate the percentage of the grand total in power bi desktop

Hello Friends,

 

i am new to Power BI and started exploring the features of power BI. i am stuck on understanding how to dervice the percentage of the grand total.

 

my case is as below

 

I have the below  table

DescriptionNo of UnitsUnits SoldPercentage of units Sold 
128625288%Created a custom calculated column and the values are coming correctly
225317770%
3905157%
411436%
52150%
6100%
Grand Total64348575% (485/643)This is not being calculated correctly in Power BI, it  shows either 100% or sum of the values.

 

please help me.

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Anonymous
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Make your Percentage of units Sold a measure an use this formula:

Percentage of units Sold = sum('TableName'[Units Sold]) / sum('TableName'[No of Units]) 

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Anonymous
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Make your Percentage of units Sold a measure an use this formula:

Percentage of units Sold = sum('TableName'[Units Sold]) / sum('TableName'[No of Units]) 

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