simple pie chart

[joemarselo]

Hi everyone,

I have a simple data, and want to make pie chart. But PowerBI fail to process it.

the table only Customer, Balance (amount), Sales (amount), and Profit (amount).

you see in 'Value' - it automatically calculates as 'Count'. I do not want to 'Count' it.

But in Excel Power View, it works perfectly.

How to correct it? What did I do wrong?

Thank you.

[haozhong · Accepted solution]

1. Go to the table underlying the pie chart and click on the "Balance_LCY" column

2. Click on "Modeling" at the ribbon above

3. In the "Formatting", choose "Whole Number", "Decimal Number" or "Fixed Decimal"

4. Then you will prompt a windows message saying changing data type will etc etc. Click on Yes.

5. Then on the pie chart - Values. You can now select "Sum"

The reason you only get Count is because your data type for that particular column is text. That's why Power Bi can't add the values.

- Hao Zhong

[joemarselo]

Thank you @haozhong.

that's exactly the answer.