I like it, but the lack of actual measures appearing in the calculation group will confuse users to no end. Would be great if they would just auto-generate named measures that could be dragged into visuals individually, using a slicer/filter seems a bit 'hacky'. Nice clear video though, as ever!
Patrick. Thanks. Good stuff! Good to note that implicit measures are no longer available if you add a calculation group. I know that explicit measures are best practice, but that can be a surprise to those unaware of that behavior.
I teach a simple introduction class for an accounting product and I always recommend you guys as a resource for those looking for videos that are easy to follow. I learn new things from your channel as well. I love the short videos as it sparks ideas for things I can use to help me build dashboards for my own projects and gives me great direction for when someone asks about YoY, now I don't have to tell them to do as many DAX. So helpful!! AS ALWAYS.
This is great! I used to manually build slicer tables and construct switch measures to replicate that kind of behaviour, but this is much more scalable.
Limitation or drawback of using calculation groups is that you may be unable to apply conditional formatting by measures. For example, in Patrick's example @ 6:44 , what if you wanted to conditionally format a gradients YoY column that applies a gradient theme on most negative to positive amounts? Let me know if someone has a workaround it.
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I have submitted this as an idea ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=2bbc3ffd-78f2-ea11-bf21-0003ff52cdee.
I'm just starting with Calculation Groups, and I agree that they are a powerful tool in the toolbox. Things I'm missing with them: sorting, ability to rename a specific column in a group for one visual.
This looks like a very cool feature for ... Eases the job of the Dataset developer for sure. My mind however, goes to the End user who did not create the model but has to build reports from the model. Thinking that this saves time on the development of the model but maybe adds "complexity" for Report builders... Creates a need for good documentation on the model and "Calculation" groups... The report builder would not see the explicit measures for each item and then the variations, but rather one item and then need to filter for the specific measure calculation they need... In our "world" we have one or two people that build Shared Datasets and then many many people that build hundreds of reports off those models. I see a challenge in "training" new report developers. Suggestions on how to bake in some kind of clarity to a new report developers as to the "guts" of what is in the calculation group?
I have been saving this video for ages as I knew someday it will be useful and it just did!!! It saved me tons of headaches trying to put in place a requirement from the business. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
The tip on sorting the table by hiding the field was worth its weight in Gold!!! It solved a problem for which I was seeking solutions from weeks. Thanks a ton for sharing :)
WoW just WoW!!!!! I do this for a living daily. This just compressed my data model a whole lot. Did I just have a "work" orgasm or what!!! I maintain 100s of measures PTD, YTD, MTD, FY for each of the measures. Sometimes my measure tables look so big i mistake them for my fact tables. I need just one calculation group and I am done. Reconstituting my data model this weekend just to surprise myself.
We have been using calculation groups heaps already! Fantastic functionality. We haven't been able to solve for a calculation group that presents the gross profit % (gross profit / revenue) across multiple measures - actual, budget and forecast. We haven't been able to combine this with a measure that presents the variance between actual and budget. Doing actual, budget and forecast gross margin % works fine down the column. But we can't get it to do actual vs budget or actual vs forecast.
You can create another Calculation Group called e.g. Scenario which holds the Actual, Budget and Forecast scenarios as Calculation Items. There you can also create a Calculation Item called e.g Variance as the difference between Actual and Budget. Be sure you understand the Precedence attribute when working with several Calculation Groups.
This is awesome idea! This can introduce completely different usage scenarios without any complexity to the DAX and keeping performance to the maximum.
Excellent issue! I created a bunch of measures to obtain several measures from two anothers that do the "Top N + Others" calculation with two different variables. There are like 30 formulas for each group and it is hard for others to read them. Now, I can write (again) the 30 formulas just once and, with selected measures i can manage between the two variables. Gonna try. Thanks.
You just broke my mind, pretty amazing! Would've saved me so much time - I assume there's no way to vary the order in which they display and/or change the names in charts like we do with other measures? Maybe w/ additional columns...?
Great Explanation🙌, It saved a lot of time. But now I also want to do conditional formatting on different columns. For example my YTD column should be of yellow color and MTD column should be of Green. how to perform this?
Very useful indeed. Quick question though. How do I go and invoke one of those measures from outside the calculationgroup. say I wan to use sales last year for a specific purpose but I want to write it as a measure instead. Can I go and leverage anything from the calculation group? Think about nested measures.
I had simulated calculation groups in ssas tabular 2016, and have been using it since then, as it didn't had sets concept. July release made it much easier. 👍 Guy in a cube on fore arm 👊
This is such a game changer. Currently we have to create these as separate measures, whereas we can just get users to know what group they need, rather than having to know which measures.
I wish there would be more videos explaining calculation groups, @Patrick. This is so good that I had to track back to this video after watching it a year ago!
This is dope, I don't see external tools tab though. Also, I feel as though volume weights should be calculated through this method as well that can be dynamic by selected measures and selected dates. I'm new to this, but I'm trying to pick it up!
Great article ! I use calculation Group for a custommer report and he love this features. But the first drawbacks he reveal is that it can use slicer / filtre nor sort order columns. If somebody has any tip on how to enable sorting by calculation item, you Will make my day !!
Thanks a lot for the video. Is there a way of using Tabular editor for calculation difference, sum or other aggregation of 2 or more different measures?
Nice one.. Thanks Patrick. Will conditional formatting work for individual calculation items?? Some thing like a variance field where we can highlight based on a condition... Let us know what you think abt it..
I would say yes without testing 😊. I could use the name of the Calculation Item and base the condition on that. That is interesting. I will give it a test and either post response here or may be a video. Stay tuned!!!!!
I was hoping no one else had said it, but six days later, several beat me to it. Oh well, here's my spin... this is a metric ton of bananas, my friend! I can't wait to play with this!!
Great video. I love how the YTD functions can work. it will reduce the formulas by heaps. I will look at the other videos but am also looking to do something similar for budget and goal so in the same way that you have MTD, YTD etctetc for a selected measure. I also have budget and goal (which come from different tables from the filter criteria is the same. So kind of like Revenue = Calculate( Sum(ReportedValue), Apply some filter) Revenue Budget = Calculate(sum(BudgetValue, Apply same filter) Revenue Goal = Calculate (sum(GoalValue), apply same filter) It explodes x fold when you need to the time inteligence. I am going to see how calculation groups could handle this case. will let you know how I go but if you have any tips, would love to get feedback. Cheers
If anyone is interested in how to dynamically format a measure in Power BI here is a nice tutorial: community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Dynamic-formatting-of-measures-tutorial/td-p/1297373
Hi, this was a great video, but how do we create a calculation group for those calculations where we have more than one measure in the formula. For Eg: A simple division: Result = A/B where we have one measure (A) in the numerator and another measure (B) in the Denominator?
That's nice! What about if I put on matrix several measures: sales, customers and profit. And I need to show current value, previous month and difference?
This is so cool! Thanks Patrick. I have a "Can't display the visual" message. It says can't determine relationships between the fields. What am I doing wrong?
I am fairly new ro Power Bi and current have a multitude of measures and never new this even existed so I am thankful for this video 👍🏽 Does this impact on the performance of loading and manipulating reports once published?
This is awesome. How can you get dynamic measures to format dynamically. e.g. numbers are $k or $m and percentages stay as %. We can do this in the chart visual by selecting "auto" format. Though the matrix doesn't have the auto format option.
Now this is bloody useful...If I didn't see it before, I do now. The external tools integration is really going to open up this puppy now. Exciting times! Only problem now is time to actually integrate all these cool developing features.
Super Nice one. Can we use same Time calculated group(Mtd,YTD..) for multiple values (Qty,Sales) on the same matrix ? If yes, can I rename the column names in the matrix? Eg: "Qty MTD" and "Sales MonthToDate"?
Thank you very much for these videos, they have been a great help. I liked this video as it helped me remove over 60 measures however I am wondering how or if the calculation items can be used in other visuals. I have for example a line and stacked column chart where the line is (active employees YoY % Var) of a measure other than what is covered in the columns (New Hires and New Hires SPLY by month). Do I have to recreate my individual measures to use them in this fashion?
Amazing ! This help to reduce lots of time for writing DAX and also simplify the model. I have one query, how can I use it into another measure. For example, I have a measure TY YTD Sales by using TOTALYTD function and I can use it into any other measure. Like Is there any way to use the Calculation Group into any other measure?
Thanks Patrick, as usual you guys always save the day! I do have a question see if you can point me in the right direction. Can i select a measure depending on the user that is logged in? I have three two levels in my RLS in three levels of granularity. What I want is if a manager logs in show the visualiztion with the corresponding measure and then the west coast supervisor or the east coast supervisor. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Reynaldo
Great video, it's really made it clear what is required to set up calculation groups, I'll enjoy getting to grips with them over the next couple of projects.
Thank you @patrick @guyinthecube, I have implemented the calculation for a report but the complex nature of the requirement is to have 3 layers of drill down at row level and 3 layers of drill down at column level and all of them have time intelligence e.g., MTD, QTD, YOY against Actuals, Budget and Actuals v Budget information per selected criteria e.g., Net sales, Gross Sales, PBT et cetera. The performance just drags completely and just fails later after hitting threshold. Could there be anything that can be done to improve the performance? The measures uses keep filters, selected measure with time intelligence calculation. Needless to say it is a matrix view. Any tip, suggestion would help.
Please make a video on the MTD,YTD calculations. New to power bi and I have done enough research on how to do this!!!! Couldn't find anything that was easy detailed enough to understand how to do :(
I'm quite new to PowerBi and have been fighting with my employer to get properly trained in this software, but what I've already learnt from following you guys is better than any training I had so far!
Amazing video Patrik...as always..thanks! My question to you here is, 1. Can we control the sequence/order in which the columns of the "Calculation Groups" are shown on the Matrix? 2. Can we plot this on a single value card? I think yes, might have to filter. Please guide.
Thanks for this, game changer for sure - curious, is there a way to reference one of those calculation group measures in a card? i.e. if you just wanted to show a card with MTD
Great Content thanks, it would be great if there where another solution to filter the name, for example for cards, it looks like it will be messier if we have to do a slicer for each card
You can connect to any model either SSAS or local power bi file, just make sure the file is open on the same machine tabular editor is running on. I use the portable version, so just unzip and run manually, doesn't require admin to install on the machine. github.com/otykier/TabularEditor/releases/download/2.11.7/TabularEditor.Portable.zip
That's just wonderful, Patrick. Thank you. I see that you've changed everything to just using the "Time Intelligence" group. Can I assume it is safe for me to delete my existing measures, and change all my reference to the new field (in your case, "Name")?
THE Calculation Groups is a paid tool now… any free alternative? I have multiple measures that are exactly the same but the main parameter. How can I reduce the number of measures? In Basic I would use subroutines… Thanks for any tip
@patrick: I am using SAP HANA as a data source and I have created calculation groups but after the refresh, all my measures changed to dimensions, so this will not apply to SAP HANA sources?
This is great, thank you! The only downside I see with this, is that you cannot sort rows by the separate measure/columns. You can only sort by the total of all the measures, which can be a meaningless number, depending on what you are showing on rows. Though, I guess this is a limitation of the matrix visual itself... This concept has a lot of potential applications, but it would be the answer to all my problems if you could sort based on a single matrix column.
so do these calculation groups get effected by slicer selection? lets say i have a date slicer and i have selected a date range..so do all these calculation groups get effected by the date slicer selection?
I like it, but the lack of actual measures appearing in the calculation group will confuse users to no end. Would be great if they would just auto-generate named measures that could be dragged into visuals individually, using a slicer/filter seems a bit 'hacky'.
Nice clear video though, as ever!
Patrick. Thanks. Good stuff! Good to note that implicit measures are no longer available if you add a calculation group. I know that explicit measures are best practice, but that can be a surprise to those unaware of that behavior.
I teach a simple introduction class for an accounting product and I always recommend you guys as a resource for those looking for videos that are easy to follow. I learn new things from your channel as well. I love the short videos as it sparks ideas for things I can use to help me build dashboards for my own projects and gives me great direction for when someone asks about YoY, now I don't have to tell them to do as many DAX. So helpful!! AS ALWAYS.
This is great! I used to manually build slicer tables and construct switch measures to replicate that kind of behaviour, but this is much more scalable.
This is so useful is SO MANY WAYS! Having these calculation groups pre-created for my future reports. Thanks Patrick!
I was able to reduce the number of measures from 178 to 61 thanks to calculation groups! This is so useful!
Limitation or drawback of using calculation groups is that you may be unable to apply conditional formatting by measures. For example, in Patrick's example @ 6:44 , what if you wanted to conditionally format a gradients YoY column that applies a gradient theme on most negative to positive amounts? Let me know if someone has a workaround it.
I have submitted this as an idea ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=2bbc3ffd-78f2-ea11-bf21-0003ff52cdee.
Is there a workaround it ??
I'm just starting with Calculation Groups, and I agree that they are a powerful tool in the toolbox. Things I'm missing with them: sorting, ability to rename a specific column in a group for one visual.
This looks like a very cool feature for ... Eases the job of the Dataset developer for sure. My mind however, goes to the End user who did not create the model but has to build reports from the model. Thinking that this saves time on the development of the model but maybe adds "complexity" for Report builders... Creates a need for good documentation on the model and "Calculation" groups... The report builder would not see the explicit measures for each item and then the variations, but rather one item and then need to filter for the specific measure calculation they need...
In our "world" we have one or two people that build Shared Datasets and then many many people that build hundreds of reports off those models. I see a challenge in "training" new report developers. Suggestions on how to bake in some kind of clarity to a new report developers as to the "guts" of what is in the calculation group?
I have been saving this video for ages as I knew someday it will be useful and it just did!!! It saved me tons of headaches trying to put in place a requirement from the business. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
The tip on sorting the table by hiding the field was worth its weight in Gold!!! It solved a problem for which I was seeking solutions from weeks. Thanks a ton for sharing :)
WoW just WoW!!!!! I do this for a living daily. This just compressed my data model a whole lot. Did I just have a "work" orgasm or what!!! I maintain 100s of measures PTD, YTD, MTD, FY for each of the measures. Sometimes my measure tables look so big i mistake them for my fact tables. I need just one calculation group and I am done. Reconstituting my data model this weekend just to surprise myself.
We have been using calculation groups heaps already! Fantastic functionality. We haven't been able to solve for a calculation group that presents the gross profit % (gross profit / revenue) across multiple measures - actual, budget and forecast. We haven't been able to combine this with a measure that presents the variance between actual and budget. Doing actual, budget and forecast gross margin % works fine down the column. But we can't get it to do actual vs budget or actual vs forecast.
You can create another Calculation Group called e.g. Scenario which holds the Actual, Budget and Forecast scenarios as Calculation Items. There you can also create a Calculation Item called e.g Variance as the difference between Actual and Budget. Be sure you understand the Precedence attribute when working with several Calculation Groups.
@@simenjohannesen4647 is there any examples on how to solve this?
What do I do when I have a question on anything Power BI?????? I head out here!!! You effing beauty - that cleared up so many things! Cheers
wow! Love to hear that! Glad it was helpful for you. 👊
as just about everyone else has said..... "WOW!". Thanks Patrick
Appreciate that Spencer! 👊
Finally I see these calculation groups that caused such a fuss in the community in action :)
Woot! Thanks for watching 👊
WOW, JUST WOW.... EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, MADE MY DAY! THANKS PATRICK!!
Love it! Glad it made your day Ricardo! 👊
This is awesome idea! This can introduce completely different usage scenarios without any complexity to the DAX and keeping performance to the maximum.
Indeed! It's a game changer 👊
Excellent issue! I created a bunch of measures to obtain several measures from two anothers that do the "Top N + Others" calculation with two different variables. There are like 30 formulas for each group and it is hard for others to read them. Now, I can write (again) the 30 formulas just once and, with selected measures i can manage between the two variables.
Gonna try.
Thanks.
This is definitely a game changer for me. Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome to hear! 👊
This is really amazing, Thank you so much Patrick for introducing it.
Good learning. You both are doing a great service by en lighting the people like us.
Hey Nags, your video is pretty helpful too!
So awesome to be able to build this in PowerBI- just like you can in SSAS!
Yes! This has been a long awaited feature.
Wow, one of the best improvements to my meager power bi skills, I love this , thanks!
You just broke my mind, pretty amazing! Would've saved me so much time - I assume there's no way to vary the order in which they display and/or change the names in charts like we do with other measures? Maybe w/ additional columns...?
There is an "Ordinal" field that will allow you to change the order that they are shown.
Thanks for putting this together! Very helpful!
Hello, Patrick. That was nice, thank you. But what about different colour formating for each column in this case?
Hi Patrick, Thanks for always sharing the tips. I feel like I discover gold here when I watch videos from your channel.
Great video, thanks Patrick.
Is there any way to add conditional formatting to individual columns when using this approach? Thanks.
Great Explanation🙌, It saved a lot of time. But now I also want to do conditional formatting on different columns. For example my YTD column should be of yellow color and MTD column should be of Green. how to perform this?
Very useful indeed. Quick question though. How do I go and invoke one of those measures from outside the calculationgroup. say I wan to use sales last year for a specific purpose but I want to write it as a measure instead.
Can I go and leverage anything from the calculation group?
Think about nested measures.
Yes, you can filter expressions using a calc group item. The CG is just a table.
This is so easy to follow. Now I can create better Power BI reports. Awesome! Thanks Patrick.
I had simulated calculation groups in ssas tabular 2016, and have been using it since then, as it didn't had sets concept. July release made it much easier. 👍
Guy in a cube on fore arm 👊
Thank Patrick, just wow
This is such a game changer. Currently we have to create these as separate measures, whereas we can just get users to know what group they need, rather than having to know which measures.
I wish there would be more videos explaining calculation groups, @Patrick. This is so good that I had to track back to this video after watching it a year ago!
This is pure gold! Thank you!!
This is dope, I don't see external tools tab though. Also, I feel as though volume weights should be calculated through this method as well that can be dynamic by selected measures and selected dates. I'm new to this, but I'm trying to pick it up!
Am I using Calculation Groups? I AM NOW!
YES! They can be a great option!
This is very informative. Can the calculation group be created by any other external tools like - Dax Studio?
Thank u Patrick, How we can group Rows (not measure) in matrix with calculation group? Many row in matrix is problem too.
Great article ! I use calculation Group for a custommer report and he love this features. But the first drawbacks he reveal is that it can use slicer / filtre nor sort order columns. If somebody has any tip on how to enable sorting by calculation item, you Will make my day !!
Thanks a lot for the video. Is there a way of using Tabular editor for calculation difference, sum or other aggregation of 2 or more different measures?
Awesome video. Can use these calculation groups in visuals like in charts?
Hi, thank you for ur good tutorials.
Can we do dimensions group instead of calculation group in Tabular Editor?
Nice one.. Thanks Patrick. Will conditional formatting work for individual calculation items?? Some thing like a variance field where we can highlight based on a condition... Let us know what you think abt it..
I would say yes without testing 😊. I could use the name of the Calculation Item and base the condition on that. That is interesting. I will give it a test and either post response here or may be a video. Stay tuned!!!!!
Thank you Patrick!!
Curious if anyone figured this out.....Seems like it could be done in the expression formating.
I was hoping no one else had said it, but six days later, several beat me to it. Oh well, here's my spin... this is a metric ton of bananas, my friend! I can't wait to play with this!!
HAHA all good! We agree with you 👊
Thanks a lot Patrick! Perfectly explained!!
This is so awesome. Thank you for a great tip.
Great video. I love how the YTD functions can work. it will reduce the formulas by heaps. I will look at the other videos but am also looking to do something similar for budget and goal so in the same way that you have MTD, YTD etctetc for a selected measure. I also have budget and goal (which come from different tables from the filter criteria is the same. So kind of like
Revenue = Calculate( Sum(ReportedValue), Apply some filter)
Revenue Budget = Calculate(sum(BudgetValue, Apply same filter)
Revenue Goal = Calculate (sum(GoalValue), apply same filter)
It explodes x fold when you need to the time inteligence. I am going to see how calculation groups could handle this case. will let you know how I go but if you have any tips, would love to get feedback. Cheers
If anyone is interested in how to dynamically format a measure in Power BI here is a nice tutorial:
community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Dynamic-formatting-of-measures-tutorial/td-p/1297373
Simply Amazing, this makes development so much faster.
It can definitely help 👊
I like it! Is there also a work around when working with a card (visual)? Not sure if SELECTEDMEASURE is even possible with a card?
Mind blowing. Thank you Patrick for explaining it beautifully!
This is really awesome! Thank you so much!
This is very useful in my organisation as i have a hell lot of measures needs to be created for all the time intelligence calculations.
Hi, this was a great video, but how do we create a calculation group for those calculations where we have more than one measure in the formula. For Eg: A simple division: Result = A/B where we have one measure (A) in the numerator and another measure (B) in the Denominator?
Download the sample file and look at the Sales YOY% measure
That's nice! What about if I put on matrix several measures: sales, customers and profit. And I need to show current value, previous month and difference?
That works too.
But not nested. Let’s say: Sales, Sales PY, Customers, Customers PM, Customers change %. So different time intelligence for customers and for sales...
BIG thumbs up! See alot potential in that concept! Thanks for explaining it in an easy understandable way!
Most welcome! Thanks for watching 👊
Dude you just got yourself a huge fan! Thx for that!
WOW! Appreciate that a LOT! 👊
This is so cool! Thanks Patrick. I have a "Can't display the visual" message. It says can't determine relationships between the fields. What am I doing wrong?
Amazing!!!! Will solve many of the present ways of creating measures
I am fairly new ro Power Bi and current have a multitude of measures and never new this even existed so I am thankful for this video 👍🏽
Does this impact on the performance of loading and manipulating reports once published?
This is awesome. How can you get dynamic measures to format dynamically. e.g. numbers are $k or $m and percentages stay as %. We can do this in the chart visual by selecting "auto" format. Though the matrix doesn't have the auto format option.
Stay tuned for another video on that 👊
I was wondering this week how could I filter measures in a visualization. Now I have my answer :) ty so much
Now this is bloody useful...If I didn't see it before, I do now. The external tools integration is really going to open up this puppy now. Exciting times! Only problem now is time to actually integrate all these cool developing features.
Super Nice one. Can we use same Time calculated group(Mtd,YTD..) for multiple values (Qty,Sales) on the same matrix ? If yes, can I rename the column names in the matrix? Eg: "Qty MTD" and "Sales MonthToDate"?
Thank you very much for these videos, they have been a great help. I liked this video as it helped me remove over 60 measures however I am wondering how or if the calculation items can be used in other visuals. I have for example a line and stacked column chart where the line is (active employees YoY % Var) of a measure other than what is covered in the columns (New Hires and New Hires SPLY by month). Do I have to recreate my individual measures to use them in this fashion?
you just saved a lot of time for me.. I was supposed have 200+ metrics.. Also we can have these as builtin templates in powerbi in future probably...
Amazing ! This help to reduce lots of time for writing DAX and also simplify the model.
I have one query, how can I use it into another measure. For example, I have a measure TY YTD Sales by using TOTALYTD function and I can use it into any other measure. Like Is there any way to use the Calculation Group into any other measure?
Thanks man this is awesome.
What happens if I have multiple measures?
Thanks Patrick, as usual you guys always save the day! I do have a question see if you can point me in the right direction. Can i select a measure depending on the user that is logged in? I have three two levels in my RLS in three levels of granularity. What I want is if a manager logs in show the visualiztion with the corresponding measure and then the west coast supervisor or the east coast supervisor. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Reynaldo
Great video, it's really made it clear what is required to set up calculation groups, I'll enjoy getting to grips with them over the next couple of projects.
Thank you @patrick @guyinthecube, I have implemented the calculation for a report but the complex nature of the requirement is to have 3 layers of drill down at row level and 3 layers of drill down at column level and all of them have time intelligence e.g., MTD, QTD, YOY against Actuals, Budget and Actuals v Budget information per selected criteria e.g., Net sales, Gross Sales, PBT et cetera.
The performance just drags completely and just fails later after hitting threshold. Could there be anything that can be done to improve the performance? The measures uses keep filters, selected measure with time intelligence calculation. Needless to say it is a matrix view. Any tip, suggestion would help.
Wow!! Great stuff!! So useful. Thanks a lot!
I love the way you explain things, like we were dudes, pals, friends, that's really nice, haha cheers from Brazil
Amazing. Thank you for this demo
Most welcome Najim! 👊
Please make a video on the MTD,YTD calculations. New to power bi and I have done enough research on how to do this!!!! Couldn't find anything that was easy detailed enough to understand how to do :(
Well done Patrick.
I freaking love this!!! You've just shown me a great solution to what I was trying to implement in my reports!!
I'm quite new to PowerBi and have been fighting with my employer to get properly trained in this software, but what I've already learnt from following you guys is better than any training I had so far!
Amazing video Patrik...as always..thanks!
My question to you here is,
1. Can we control the sequence/order in which the columns of the "Calculation Groups" are shown on the Matrix?
2. Can we plot this on a single value card? I think yes, might have to filter.
Please guide.
This is great. Thanks for creating this video. Helps a lot!
Thanks for this, game changer for sure - curious, is there a way to reference one of those calculation group measures in a card? i.e. if you just wanted to show a card with MTD
Perhaps using filters at the visual level ?
Yes, put a filter on the visual. You can also put such a filter on a Calculate expression.
Great Content thanks, it would be great if there where another solution to filter the name, for example for cards, it looks like it will be messier if we have to do a slicer for each card
Do you have any videos on opening models in Tabular Editor? We are in PBIRS and only on the May2020 version right now. So, no external tools.
You can connect to any model either SSAS or local power bi file, just make sure the file is open on the same machine tabular editor is running on. I use the portable version, so just unzip and run manually, doesn't require admin to install on the machine. github.com/otykier/TabularEditor/releases/download/2.11.7/TabularEditor.Portable.zip
Hi Patrick,
Can we use Calculation Groups in the waterfall chart where we show calculation items simultaneously?
Appreciate the response
Awesome feature!! Thank you for that!
This is amazing! Love your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching👊
That's just wonderful, Patrick. Thank you. I see that you've changed everything to just using the "Time Intelligence" group. Can I assume it is safe for me to delete my existing measures, and change all my reference to the new field (in your case, "Name")?
How do we apply conditional formatting on the values in this matrix? Is this a limitation of this approach or there is a way?
Wow, this is awesome!!! thanks Patrick!!!
This is awesome! Thanks Patrick
THE Calculation Groups is a paid tool now… any free alternative?
I have multiple measures that are exactly the same but the main parameter. How can I reduce the number of measures? In Basic I would use subroutines…
Thanks for any tip
Excellent.. it’s of great help👍👍👍
@patrick: I am using SAP HANA as a data source and I have created calculation groups but after the refresh, all my measures changed to dimensions, so this will not apply to SAP HANA sources?
This is great, thank you! The only downside I see with this, is that you cannot sort rows by the separate measure/columns. You can only sort by the total of all the measures, which can be a meaningless number, depending on what you are showing on rows. Though, I guess this is a limitation of the matrix visual itself... This concept has a lot of potential applications, but it would be the answer to all my problems if you could sort based on a single matrix column.
Yea. There are some challenges. Care does need to be taken for the final output.
@@GuyInACube Nonetheless, this is going to be super useful in the right visuals (especially being able to filter measures in/out of graphs)
Can you please tell about the keyboard shortcuts to access dates, month and year only with keybaord.
Amazing video, thanks.
Really awesome on the caluation group
This is an awesome idea. Thanks, Patrick
so do these calculation groups get effected by slicer selection? lets say i have a date slicer and i have selected a date range..so do all these calculation groups get effected by the date slicer selection?