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viera00
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Helper II

Help with Custom Visualisation of Column Chart

Hello Everyone,

Im new to the developers community. Im an experienced PowerBI user, but I faced a new challenge I would like to solve, maybe with the development of a custom visual.

 

Let me describe the scenario.

 

Im connecting to a SSAS, Multidimensional. So I cannot Use DAX, or create further metrics than the ones that are provided by the cube Im using.

 

There is a metric, wich is a percentage of variation. There is a Category Dimension. There are four categories. The data in the table would look like this:

 

Category Dim | Var %

Category1 | 5.2%
Category2| 3.2%
Category3| 5.1%
Category4| 4.2%

 

The Column Chart They use today (created with excel chart, over a table) has the following information:

 

  • X-Axes: the 4 categories and 1 more column named 'Total'
  • Y-Axes: the % value.

In PowerBI I use the column chart. I add the Dimension as the Axes, The metric as the Value.
This chart shows me 4 columns, but I'm unable to add the Totals Column.

 

I tried to use a Waterfall Chart, but the proble, is that the waterfall chart "adds" de percentages, instead of using the disagregated of the dimension.
Why? , because the total % I want, is not the sum of the percentages of the dimension, but the metric calculated withour the drill down.

 

I tried different ways to do this in PowerBI without much success. Im thinking that the best way to do this is to implement a custom visual. I think I could be able to modify the column chart, but I need some guidance.


What I want to add: I want to add 1 more column, with a value that is taken from a Metric, without drilling down by any context.

 

For people that has developed visuals before, what is the best way to approach this ?

 

I would appreciate any help over this.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Alejandro.

German Viera
http://slidemodel.com/
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