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PowerBI - How to mirror a report to another workspace

Hey so I have a report in workspace A and I'm trying to mirror (reference) it to workspace B such that workspace ...
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"Your X and y-axis values aren't playing together nicely" error with simple numeric and datetime data

I'm new to PowerBI. I'm more familiar with Plotly and Spotfire. I'm trying to create what (to me) seems to be an incredibly basic scatter plot with datetime on the x-axis and a decimal on the y-axis. ...
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Working with two dates fields in table

I am working with dates. My fields are in order table: Start date close date order no. I have to show open orders each month. I have created a relationship with the date table by start date. I need ...
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comparing data from first quarter in two years

How can I compare data from two quarters? What software can I use to do it parallelly side by side so I can compare them. What kind of factors can I take into consideration, I'm posting a sample data ...
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Can not display the data becuase Power BI can not determine the relationship between two or more fields

I have added 2 separate SharePoint lists inside my Power BI desktop, as follow:- now there is not any relation between the 2 tables. and i built 2 tabs inside Power BI >> each table to show the ...
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How can I change not only the value of the custom field but the what the field shows itself?

I need to be able to write custom fields in Power BI but the values of the fields change based off of company. For example, Twitter vs Instagram - field 1 for Twitter should show company name and ...
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Why does PowerBI take longer to load data than PowerQuery takes to load preview?

I have a stored procedure in SQL Server and when I open PowerQuery, I can get a preview of the whole table in a minute or two. But once I click 'Apply and Close', it will take AGES to load and finally ...
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Finding MIN of Multiple Columns without blanks

I have a table with 5 columns. I want to have a 6th column that gives the minimum from the first 5 line by line but some the 5 columns have blank entries so my min column picks these up as the minimum....
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Why does combining measures produce different results in Power BI / DAX

I have developed a measure in parts using two separate measures. As a final step, i combined them together using a variable for the helper measure, only to discover that the results are different. ...
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Visualising a count of percentage ranges across 3 time dimensions

I've got to visualise revenue x commission rates over 3 years in a single visual. I'm looking for suggestions to improve communicating the data vs the approach I've got now. I feel like the current ...
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How to define measures automatically via PowerBi custom connector

We are planning to build a PowerBI custom connector for our product. The backend would be mostly responding with csv / json tabular data, however this data may require some special interpretation at ...
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Is it okay to ignore missing data despite a very small percentage?

My dataset has seven cols and 63 mil rows. There are two columns with missing data. The first one [Terminal Number] has 400k rows of missing data but thankfully, I can extract values from another ...
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How i can show the Sum of Hours for a field for each User

I have create a Data source from an API inside PowerBI reports, as follow:- the Data i am showing is as follow:- with these fields; Name, LogStart, LogEnd, Type & TotalTime... now how i can show ...
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Is the Advanced Editor the only way to copy a query out of Power BI?

I am relatively new to Power BI. I have inherited 85 or so reports spread out across dozens of workspaces. I need to modify the queries used to pull data into some of the reports. The only approach I ...
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Newbie asking: consolidate multiple values (PowerBI)

I’m a newbie in data analytics and still learning. I have a small challenge and would like to ask for a smart way to solve. I’m working on RFM model, and have data look like example below: phone ...
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Data tables over an interactive map?

I have the longitude/latitude points of various communities within a Country. I'm interested in having a user be able to hover over a point on the map and be able to read the available data tables on ...
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Merge two data sets by date, filling in missing dates in 1st table, power bi

I'd like to merge the two data sets by the date, keeping all the dates and filling in the totals col with NULL when the date doesn't match EDIT: I’m working in Power BI Data set 1 ...
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Gauge issue - target value doesn't show up

I'm trying to create some visuals for a report in Power Bi, and I have this issue with a Gauge Visualization. I introduce the Total Revenues and Total Revenues (target) measures as Value and Target ...
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How to filter by two columns in a single table that both point to another table in Power BI

How do you set up a data model in Power BI when one table has several columns that point to a single other table? For example, I have a sessions table that includes columns like "providerID",...
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Why is my Count (distinct) not working the way I would expect it to be? PowerBI

My total is set as Count (distinct). However, the total itself doesn't make any sense, as you can see in my attachment. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? By not making any sense, I mean that the numbers ...
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Power BI Show Multiple Datapoints on same Axis

I have a dataset that summarizes student absences grouped by School Site, Grade, Gender, Race and it is broken down into groups with total # of students that had: Absence <5%, Absence 5-10%, ...
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date relation between 2 tables

I have 2 tables: Budget, that include budget per month in € for each product (in each row the date is the last day of the month): 31/01/2023 product1 10000€ 31/01/2023 product2 5000€ 28/02/2023 ...
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I get incorrect numbers while dividing two columns

With this code and the attached photo why I get incorrect numebrs for priceforunit last column?!! for example the last column for the first row should be 117556.23/2829 = 41.55 priceofeachunit = ...
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Using input of a 1-12 (period-based) slicer in a measure

I would like to use a slicer based on the 12-months of a year to calculate the yearly budget up until a specific month and be able to compare it to realised costs. Slicer: So, if I am in month 8 (...
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Are there any open datasets for commercial use?

I am creating a bootcamp for data analyst and it's been 2 days I am looking for some good dataset fit for commercial use that I can use to create Tableau and Power BI tutorials. Even on kaggle some ...
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Cannot publish a Power BI report from a Power BI optimized Client to Power BI Report Server

I recently installed a fresh-out-of-the-box Power BI server on a windows server. I had it configured and everything works just fine, I also have a web portal and a web service up and running. I also ...
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How to only show the tooltip for a trace I am hovering over

I have a Line chart with multiple traces. When I hover over a tooltip, it shows every trace in the tooltip, not just the one I am hovering over. I have so many traces that the one I am hovering over ...
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Calculating % by Dividing Filtered Matrix Columns in MS Power BI

Given: A monthly percentage (%) metric has to be calculated from dividing a column ('Numerator') from one table by a column ('Denominator') from another table, both filtered by month, as given in an ...
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Which visualization tool should I use?

We consider the below function : $f(x,y,z,a) = x*y*z*a$, where $x,y \in \mathbb{Q}\cap[0,1000],$ $ a\in\{2,3\} $ and $z=z(x)$, taking values from the below table based on the level-range that $x$ ...
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Show overall average on plots of single data

I have data from a survey from multiple locations (1 data set per location per year, each containing about 20-25 numerical scores from 0 to 5). This data is aggregated over topics (e.g. first 5 ...
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How come powerbi does not SUM() properly? [closed]

I want to learn PowerBI so I downloaded it connected PowerBI to a MySQL database that uses this test data set: http://learn.evermight.net/johnlai/demostore.sql That data set has the tables ...
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Help with breaking up a column in PowerBI to make a bar chart

My data set is a list of documents. I have a column in my data set - 'Independent Variable'. This column can contain nothing, i.e. 'NA', or one variable, i.e. 'var1', or multiple, i.e. 'var1;var2;var3'...
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Power BI : How to concactenate a variable number of columns? [closed]

I am importing data from Jira in PowerBi directly from the web. The data contains an unknown number of columns with similar name (for example Comment1, Comment2, Comment3, etc. depending on the ...
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How to accomodate different database / schema names when writing M queries in Power BI?

I am working with Power BI and I need to setup a template with some input parameters, one of them being the name of the database to get data from. To do this, I have setup a parameter (called ...
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How to read html tables under multiple headers and combine them in a single pandas dataframe?

I have an html file like this: ...
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PowerBI: Yes/No if date falls within moving month-based period (REVISED)

Goal: I am trying to filter a line chart that has trends both 3 months back and 6 months out (a total of a 10 month block). Attempted Method: I tried to create a binary DAX-based yes/no filter as a ...
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(SOLVED) Power BI, Page level filter not working with many to one relation

EDIT: Solution found. Turns out the relations were set to Cross filter direction: Single on all relations (and the one from ...
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Create a measure that converts minutes into hours [closed]

My searching is weak so I didn't find anything that satisfied my need. I have a dataset of work items. I have a lead time column present on each record. It is in minutes, and I want to create a ...
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Interactive Data Visualisations

So I have finally gotten a hold of ggplot2 and ggvis packages and tried out shiny too to have interactive graphics and visualizations. but i have been using Power BI before and came to R as a an good ...
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DistinctCount for relatedtable with additional filter

In powerBi, a column is created with below formula, and it is working good. activedays = COUNTAX(RELATEDTABLE(ActivesInactiveData),ActivesInactiveData[Surface Date]) However, I want to add a filter ...
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Does MS PowerBI directly connect with Azure's ML workbench?

Someone wants me to try to see if I can establish a workflow for them using PowerBI and Azure's ML, then show them how to use it. The idea is to create kind of a seemless experience for them, so they ...