I'm a newbie in Power BI and I'm now stuck with a visualization problem. I have an Excel table with columns about (1) the title of a news article and (2) the date when it was published. As seen on the screenshot from Excel, there are months on which nothing was published.
I need to make a stacked column chart in Power BI from it. First, the one I made shows only years, while I want to see months. Second, I'd like to see each month, including those that have the value of 0 (i.e. nothing was published on this month). Thus my aim is to have 48 month columns instead of my 4 columns for years. Thanks a lot in advance!
Initial data, Excel
The Power BI stacked column chart that I want to tweak
I assume you are using auto date/time in Power BI Desktop, for simplicity:
Create a new bar chart visualisation
Drag the Date column into the Axis field
The Date column should transform into a hierarchy - remove Quarter from this hierarchy
If the Date column does not show up as a hierarchy, right click Date in the Axis field and select Date Hierarchy
Drag the Title column into the Values field
Right click Date in the Axis field and tick Show Items With No Data
Click the visualisation in the canvas and press the button that looks like one arrow that splits into two arrows, to expand all down one level in the hierarchy
This should get you what you are after:
You can deselect Concatenate Labels for your X-axis to get this result.
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I have created a stacked column chart of total income per month for 2022.
In addition, I have created a line diagram that shows the income accumulated for each month in 2022. This is available as tooltips and I want that page to come up when I hold over my stacked column chart.
The problem is that power BI filters on month in the line chart. I want it to not filter it - and show the whole line chart as tooltips.
Anyone have any tips here?
Lock different filters
I had a sample screenshot, and want to create it using Power BI Desktop. here in red rounded border rectangle are 4 Cards Visuals, all 4 visuals are have same measure LatestPrice which is within its Data Table. first (left most) card can change values as user selects a Country in Slicer above and other 3 will NOT change. how I can achieve this using Format -> Edit Interactions (this hint given by my manager to achieve), i tried but failed to have 3 cards visuals can have values from measure and will not interact with Slicer.
screenshot:
How can we enable the function field as circled in red in the screenshot below? I cannot find it in my Power BI Desktop. I am using DirectQuery.
This looks like you are referring to the Formula Bar.
The formula bar is only visible when you are working with DAX, i.e. creating/editing a measure or a column in a table.
Create a new measure or select an existing measure in the field picker on the right of the screen, and the formula bar will show.
I am working with an imported data set from Excel, for each row there is a volume for each year 2020-2030 as an individual column.
Trying to plot the sum of each column 2020-2030 in a bar chart however this does not display as expected. See attached images. Already tried adding the data to the Axis field but this does not work.
The goal is to have a plot with years 2020-2030 on X-Axis and total volume on Y-Axis, then clicking on an individual year will then filter related plots by year. So far I can only sort the data in the opposite direction clicking on a category to see the volume for a single year.
Looking for help on how to plot the data specifically and then how to link this plot to other visuals in the report.
Bar Chart Created
Layout of Data
You will need to unpivot your data in m-query editor. Click on "transform-data". Select the table your data is on. Click the transform TAB. Select the year columns and click unpivot.
Now you get a table with many more rows wtih data like CY 2020, CY 2021 etc
You need to convert this to a number. you can do this by adding a column which picks up the 4 right chars and converts it to number:
Goto tab "Add Column", click Custom Column. Give column name and type:
Number.FromText(Text.End([YourColumnwiththeCY2020],4))
To make it even better, delete the column you had created during the unpivot. On this table you can do the graph representations..
apply and close to go back to your dashboard
Use unpivot in PowerQuery (M) to turn the columns for each date in to a single column containing the period with values (CY-2020, CY-2021, CY-2022 etc). You can remove the CY- and turn this in to an integer column, or convert it to a date, e.g. 1/1/2020. This will plot far better on your chart as an axis as opposed to the multi values approach in you screen shots.
See a blog post from Radacad here that provides a how to.
I have a dataset that looks something like this
I want to plot a given "owners" spend over time. So basically I want to groupby owner and plot their total spend throughout the year. However when I try to do this in powerBI it wants to put the owners on the X Axis for some reason. Normally in Excel you can address this by simply selecting "swap axis" but don't see a way to do that in powerbi.
If you expand the Visualizations pane (on the right) and select the Fields button (a white bar chart icon, beneath the table of Visualization types), then you can drag the data fields into any "Field Well" (e.g. Axis, Legend, Value).
That said, I suspect that you will need to reshape your data back in the Query layer, using an Unpivot transformation to cover the monthly columns (e.g. Jul-15, Aug-15 etc) into a pair of Attribute (Month) and Value ($) columns. This will allow charting Months on an Axis and filtering by date (e.g. last 6 months).