trying to create stacked bar chart showing both positive and negative values

[JMVandore]

Hello,

I am somewhat new to PowerBI, and am appreciative of any assistance.

I need to have a column chart that shows for each month, counts of people of different categories coming into a group and departing a group. We call it Inflow Outflow. We need to see the counts of people going in, compared with the people going out.

I have been able to do this, by using +1 and -1 for each Inflow and Outflow item respectively.

　

　

As you can see, there is an Inflow column for each month, and an outflow column for each month.

If I try to combine both inflow and outflow into one column per month, the numbers are subtracted, not stacked correctly.

What I really want is this:

Is this possible in PowerBI? How might I do that?

[v-yulgu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @JMVandore,

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If I try to combine both inflow and outflow into one column per month, the numbers are subtracted, not stacked correctly.

 What I really want is this:

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To show both inflow and outflow into one column bar per month, we have to add "inflow/outflow" as chart legend. However, from the image, it looks like there existing a legend item in chart, it is not allowed to add multiple legend items into a chart. The only workaround is to create an extra column which combines Year-Month with Inflow/OutFlow, add this new column to X-axis, as shown in the first image you posted.

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

[JMVandore]

wow thanks, I tried that before and it didn't work. this time it did. Thanks much.