Help :(Need to do YOY calculation, however do I need a date table to do this,...
I am very very new to PowerBI and I'm still getting my head around it, please pardon my ignorance I have a data set Shoe Type | FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 | Total Heels 20 30 10...
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Hi All. Very new to all this and am struggling to work out how I go about changing a column data by dividng it by a fixed number. I have a set of data from the source that has come in as bytes and I...
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hi,i want to iterate on each cell in the column (don't know how many rows and column will be, but it's not complicated to get)i want to call a function from each cell, how can i do it?also possible to...
View ArticleConnecting data from more than one Google Analytics accouns
Hello all, just to be sure I have to ask - Am I right that there is no way how I could connect data from more than one Google Analytics account to one .pbix file simultaneously? Thx,Jiri
View ArticleZooming in on RStudio (heat)maps
Hello community, I am trying to use R with Power BI. In specifics, I would like my RStudio (heat)map to behave like any other Power BI map. When I choose to filter on a company (given that I'm using...
View ArticleCreating a dashboard using a query with parameters - Beginner.
Hi there, I am looking to create a dashboard /report for my users to see business on the books (hospitality KPI- this basically needs to tell us how many are the no of rooms booked for the rest of the...
View ArticlePower BI Desktop 64 bit crashing at startup, 32 bit crashes with "System out...
Hi everone, I have had this issue for a while now: If I install PowerBI Desktop 64 bit, the program gets closed before it even opens, basically the process just gets killed. After researching the...
View ArticlePopulation Age Pyramid
Hello all,I am working with a dataset that provides a given population by 5-year age cohorts and sex. A common and concise chart to create with this data woudl be a population age pyramid. Oddly, I do...
View ArticleBest Way of Moving .pbix Calculations/Mesures from Running off of Excel to a...
Hi all, Before I got access to my database, I wrote all my reports in Excel files. Now I'm not sure how to take all of that work and put it into the report that connects to the database. Is this an...
View ArticleReport is too slow
Hi,I currently have a dashboard based on 5 excels and 10 SharePoint lists. To increase the speed of this report I have done mulitple things: Deleted columns I don't need (will it make a difference if...
View ArticleChange Currency Dynamically creating string (want to cast back to Currency)
I'm dynamically changing currency depending on a table value and this returns a string I've formatted appropriately, however I also want to use this result as a value in a heatmap / treemap and I can't...
View ArticleCan I cast a currency Text string to currency type to use as value in heatmap?
I have a need to convert or cast the string result of a DAX query (in the format "£#,###") into its CURRENCY equivalent so that I can use it as a value in a heatmap / treemap. Any help to resolve this...
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link fact tables
Hi, Nooby with DAX/PowerBI. In SQL I know how to do, but I could not figure out how to do in Power BI desktop. In the screenshot from Excel I explain what I will achieve. Also the steps I see what are...
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Cumulative sum without date field
I am trying to create a Cumulative Sum field that adds up the "Every Chargeback" column. I am looking at all data from 2011 though today and breaking that up by the "CHGBACK DAY OF MONTH". The...
View ArticleNeed to have User input Field which can create dynamic SQl and genrate Report...
We have requirmnet to havea user input field which will extract the data based on the input. So it has to create or build dynamic SQL based on the input parameters. The report has to be dynamic and...
View ArticleDebug variables in Advanced Editor
Hi,I'm trying to setup some dynamic queries though the advanced editor, but I'm not sure my URL variable is getting the correct values.Can I debug this in any way? Maybe do a log of the variable name...
View ArticleDistinct Count if item Is This
I have a data set with Owner, Collaborator Type, and Folder. Owners can own multiple folders and each folder has a Collaborator Type of external or managed. I'd like to be able to get a distinct...
View ArticleData aggregation - not rolling
Hi, I am creating a report with data that spans one year. However, the data comes in with 6 values per day. The data is fluctuacting much, so the grahps get almost unreadable. I can display monthly...
View ArticleCouldn't create the group
Couldn't create the groupPlease try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details. Activity ID24e4ef60-cad8-cd21-14c2-bfc3bf47f187Request...
View ArticleHow to convert "img_2016-12-16_11:30:35" as datetime?
I have column "img_2016-12-16_11:30:35" in Power BI. How to convert this column to datetime format?
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