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Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

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on 16 Jul 2018 15:59:57

It would be great if Grand Totals on a Matrix or Table would add up correctly to the sum of the rows when you include MEASURES in the visual. Currently the total on a measure consists of the measure function itself, instead of the sum of the rows above. PLEASE give us the option to toggle totals to be a simple aggregate of the rows above also.

Jeroen ter Heerdt (administrator) on 24 Oct 2022 18:59:09

Moving this idea to "under review" to mark that discussions are underway. For full transparency, we have started working on DAX calculations at the visual level. That feature will make changes that will serve as building blocks for other features, including but not limited to the one discussed in this idea: providing more flexibility for influencing what is shown on the total: the visual total, the "DAX" total, or another expression altogether.

Hence, the delivery of this Idea will be dependent on the DAX-calculations-on-a-visual feature.

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Gregory Deckler on 12 Oct 2022 13:59:39

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

Another similar idea:+18 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=12ae721b-4481-4e39-8026-08bf82c9a4c0

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Gregory Deckler on 12 Oct 2022 13:51:41

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

Most, if not all of the code necessary already exists in Power BI. Stacked visuals already display totals that are a sum of the category and already handles having too many categories (rows).

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Gregory Deckler on 10 Oct 2022 13:04:10

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

Additional votes for this:+10 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=79d5dc4c-2d4a-471a-850c-307908096ac8+3 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=63a487c4-208b-49f9-acc3-30e246ed2482+12 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=39200232-13ff-4b84-b687-cdcf538671be+2 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=569a3d80-1ab0-48ff-895a-0b7168a6613b+2 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=2357aae7-7d11-ed11-b5cf-0003ff4508ba+2 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=10335383-00df-4a1f-a874-2c45e79e3855+1 - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=f6455fc9-f7bd-4d21-ac71-157b1de9c250

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Sjoerd Donker on 07 Oct 2022 11:38:32

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

And, separate but adding to this requested feature, a UI element to indicate the use of a measure total that does not correspond to the sum of all rows. Because any end-user that hasn't ever made a data model will never find that out by themselves.

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Gregory Deckler on 06 Oct 2022 19:36:32

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

This has been ignored for far too long.

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Chuck Roberts on 24 Aug 2022 09:44:09

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

I was told by someone more knowledgeable than me that DAX cannot count rows in a viz. If someone has a solution to this I'd be happy to read it!

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Karol Bielecki on 07 Jul 2022 14:00:07

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

It was a while since that bug was reported and you didn't fix it. I worked with Tableau and they were reacted much faster and I never noticed such significant bugs as that one. It is really crazy how this big issue can be ignored.

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BI Publication . on 23 Jun 2022 05:50:02

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

Please vote to this similar issue.https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Need-the-Sum-of-option-for-Measure-output-values-in-Table-Matrix/idc-p/2560280#M80448

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Jason Dodd on 03 Feb 2022 19:13:48

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

This would be helpful in those scenarios when the table columns are primarily text and the visual is built using multiple tables. When users start applying slicers or filters having a row count serves as a good reference point for the end user, especially when a lot of rows and columns are involved. In this case I'm not sure DAX is the right alternative solution for getting counts.

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Jourdan Romain on 01 Jul 2021 09:32:05

RE: Matrix/Table grand totals with Measures

I'm surprised there are only 7 votes on this. I mean totals are wrong and nobody see it maybe ? Imagine you want to display the sum of abs of differences between your profit for date 1 and your profit for date 2, depending on categories of product etc.. The total will be wrong and not displaying the sum of abs of differences. It will neutralize the differences and then do the abs. It's so difficult to explain to a user there is no coherence between what is displayed in rows and what is displayed of what is considered to be the total of rows ... At least there should be a flag to switch from one behaviour to the other.

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