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simple pie chart
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.
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
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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
Thank you haozhong.
that's exactly the answer.
